To ask the Secretary of State for Health for each of the last 10 years, how many patients have waited (a) three to 25 weeks and (b) more than 26 weeks to see a consultant in each (i) health authority and (ii) English region. [74732]
The information requested is not available.Information on outpatient waiting times by health authority is only available from 1998–99. Available information for the quarter ending December 1998 is provided in the table.
Number of patients seen for first outpatient appointment, by time band, following written referral by a GP, quarter ended 31 December 1998
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Number seen who had waited:
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Health Authority
| 0 to less than 4 weeks
| 4 to less than 26 weeks
| 26 weeks and over
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| Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster | 4,966 | 6,506 | 171 |
| North Essex | 10,577 | 19,812 | 1,298 |
| Redbridge and Waltham Forest | 5,670 | 9,529 | 1,566 |
| South Essex | 8,059 | 17,962 | 808 |
| West Hertfordshire | 5,631 | 10,046 | 452 |
| North Thames Region total | 86,616 | 154,381 | 11,102 |
| Bexley and Greenwich | 6,697 | 9,547 | 1,040 |
| Bromley | 2,761 | 6,963 | 577 |
| Croydon | 4,904 | 5,822 | 215 |
| East Kent | 6,975 | 12,589 | 712 |
| East Surrey | 5,625 | 6,422 | 107 |
| East Sussex Brighton and Hove | 8,523 | 19,374 | 1,015 |
| Kingston and Richmond | 4,719 | 5,264 | 135 |
| Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham | 7,833 | 16,693 | 1,360 |
| Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth | 9,362 | 14,286 | 813 |
| West Kent | 11,817 | 19,323 | 1,725 |
| West Surrey | 9,456 | 13,772 | 559 |
| West Sussex | 5,960 | 12,807 | 1,248 |
| South Thames Region total | 84,632 | 142,862 | 9,506 |
| Avon | 13,889 | 18,176 | 3,115 |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 8,040 | 11,091 | 1,578 |
| Dorset | 12,574 | 17,753 | 315 |
| Gloucestershire | 7,682 | 12,048 | 765 |
| Isle of Wight | 2,290 | 3,043 | 8 |
| North and East Devon | 6,809 | 10,459 | 906 |
| North and Mid Hampshire | 8,591 | 12,939 | 781 |
| Portsmouth and South East Hampshire | 5,102 | 12,515 | 3,239 |
| Somerset | 7,279 | 10,734 | 747 |
| South and West Devon | 8,879 | 12,609 | 1,395 |
| Southampton and South West Hampshire | 5,701 | 11,435 | 747 |
| Wiltshire | 9,372 | 14,094 | 1,257 |
| South and West Region total | 96,208 | 146,896 | 14,853 |
| Birmingham | 15,532 | 22,710 | 557 |
| Coventry | 2,976 | 7,446 | 518 |
| Dudley | 4,116 | 6,953 | 119 |
| Herefordshire | 6,124 | 4,152 | 489 |
| North Staffordshire | 3,853 | 8,255 | 2,258 |
| Sandwell | 4,582 | 6,813 | 560 |
| Shropshire | 5,239 | 10,345 | 847 |
| Solihull | 2,295 | 3,993 | 56 |
| South Staffordshire | 7,566 | 13,020 | 2,131 |
| Walsall | 3,639 | 5,632 | 594 |
| Warwickshire | 3,438 | 6,228 | 478 |
| Wolverhampton | 952 | 1,852 | 120 |
| Worcestershire | 8,415 | 10,932 | 134 |
| West Midlands Region total | 68,727 | 108,331 | 8,861 |
| Bury and Rochdale | 5,771 | 8,749 | 571 |
| East Lancashire | 6,848 | 13,448 | 799 |
| Liverpool | 5,627 | 11,127 | 1,299 |
| Manchester | 6,503 | 10,065 | 1,303 |
| Morecambe Bay | 5,515 | 7,051 | 912 |
| North Cheshire | 8,214 | 5,610 | 181 |
| North West Lancashire | 7,221 | 11,344 | 562 |
| Salford and Trafford | 7,507 | 11,155 | 1,200 |
| Sefton | 2,499 | 6,793 | 593 |
| South Cheshire | 9,295 | 14,462 | 698 |
| South Lancashire | 4,001 | 7,897 | 817 |
| St. Helens and Knowsley | 5,290 | 8,086 | 866 |
| Stockport | 5,578 | 6,818 | 493 |
| West Pennine | 6,164 | 10,401 | 1,063 |
| Wigan and Bolton | 8,266 | 14,360 | 924 |
| Wirral | 3,687 | 6,766 | 1,017 |
| North West Region total | 97,986 | 154,132 | 13,298 |
| England total | 673,460 | 1,077,549 | 89,696 |