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Waiting Lists

Volume 131: debated on Thursday 21 April 1988

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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the district health authorities whose information-gathering ability has been responsible for the delay in his publishing the hospital waiting list figures for September 1987.

The following district health authorities were unable to supply a complete set of September 1987 waiting list figures :

CambridgeBrighton
NorwichDartford and Gravesham
HuntingdonMaidstone
Paddington and NorthTunbridge Wells
KensingtonCamberwell
North DerbyshireWest Surrey and North East
South DerbyshireHampshire
LeicestershireSouth West Surrey
North LincolnshireMid Surrey
South LincolnshireChichester
BassetlawMid Downs
Central NottinghamshireKingston and Esher
NottinghamMerton and Sutton
BarnsleyPortsmouth
DoncasterWinchester
RotherhamBath
SheffieldHereford
SwindonKidderminster
OxfordshireWorcester
SolihullNorth Staffordshire
PrestonSouth Warwickshire
OldhamEast Birmingham
HartlepoolWest Birmingham
RiversideSandwell
EnfieldWandsworth
In addition the September 1987 waiting list data supplied by the following district health authorities had

large inconsistencies :

DarlingtonRugby
South West DurhamCentral Birmingham
South TynesideEast Birmingham
SunderlandSouth Birmingham
East YorkshireCoventry
Leeds EasternBlackpool Wyre and Fylde
North HertfordshireBolton
HaringeyChorley and South Ribble
RedbridgeBury
WorthingNorth Manchester
East DorsetCentral Manchester
West DorsetSouth Manchester
West BerkshireSalford
Aylesbury ValeTameside and Glossop
North DevonWigan
Bromsgrove and Redditch

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when he will be releasing the hospital waiting list figures for September 1987.