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Examinations, Operations And Beds

Volume 131: debated on Tuesday 12 April 1988

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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the current waiting lists for (a) examinations, (b) operations and (c) beds in each specialty in each hospital in the Nottingham health district.

The available information, for 31 December 1986, is given in the table. It should be noted that in certain specialties a clinician may maintain a waiting list which is common to more than one hospital within a district health authority.

In-patients waiting lists as at 31 December 1986, by hospital, Nottingham District Health Authority

Hospital and Specialty

Waiting list

Nottingham City
General surgery140
Traumatic and orthopaedics290
Urology77
Plastic surgery1,160
Thoracic surgery47
Gynaecology658
Total2,372
Nottingham General
Oral surgery1844
Total844
University
Dermatology16
Neurology22
Geriatrics7
General surgery811
Ear, Nose and Throat1,491
Traumatic and orthopaedics352
Ophthalmology666
Urology124
Neurosurgery26
Gynaecology355
Total3,870
Saxondale
Total0
Highbury
Total0
St. Ann's
Psychiatry children1
Adolescent psychiatry2
Total3
Basford
Total0
St. Francis
Psychogeriatric11
Total11
Mapperley
Mental illness22
Total22
The Coppice
Total0

1 Patients on the waiting list are treated at Nottingham City and University Hospitals.