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Mr. Redmond
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by regional health authority, and specialty, national health service operations that can be performed within six weeks waiting time.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
The time patients wait depends on the severity and urgency of their condition and not on the intended treatment or operation. About half all patients admitted to hospital from the waiting lists are admitted in five weeks or less.