To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 3 July, Official Report, column 46, what special measures he proposes to assist those health authorities with out-patient waiting lists in excess of six months' waiting time to bring their lists into line with patients charter undertakings. [33290]
The second tranche of waiting times initiative moneys, some £6.7 million, was released to health authorities in April. All authorities have confirmed their commitment to the hospital waiting times measures in the patients charter for Wales. By the end of September it should be rare for anyone to have waited over six months for a first out-patient appointment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 3 July, Official Report, column 46, how many patients on the waiting lists of general practitioner fundholders are included within the total given for health authorities in each of the two columns listed. [33289]
The information relating to waiting lists at 31 March 1995 is shown separately for patients of health authorities and general practitioner fundholders in the table:
| Number waiting more than six months for out-patient appointment | Number waiting more than 18 months for in-patient or day case treatment | |||
| Health authority area | Health Authority lists | GP fundholder lists | Health authority lists | GP fundholder lists |
| Clwyd | 477 | 224 | 74 | — |
| Dyfed | 1,231 | 63 | 92 | 17 |
| Gwent | 2,588 | 433 | 2 | — |
| Gwynedd | 315 | 270 | 11 | 11 |
| Mid Glamorgan | 3,091 | 445 | 184 | 19 |
| Powys | 206 | — | — | — |
| South Glamorgan | 2,612 | 1,187 | 132 | 24 |
| West Glamorgan | 1,739 | 1,643 | 65 | 35 |
| Wales | 12,259 | 4,265 | 560 | 106 |