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Hospitals: Waiting Lists

Volume 459: debated on Wednesday 18 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what percentage of people in (a) Houghton and Washington East constituency and (b) Sunderland city council area were waiting more than (i) three months, (ii) six months and (iii) a year for an NHS treatment for (A) cancer and (B) heart problems in each year since 1997. (122787)

The information is not available in the format requested.

Data on the time patients are waiting for cancer treatment is not collected centrally.

Information is collected on performance against the cancer waiting times standards of a maximum wait of 31 days from diagnosis to first cancer treatment and a maximum wait of 62 days from urgent referral to first cancer treatment, which were introduced for all cancer patients from December 2005. Data giving performance against these standards for the period July to September 2006 shows that patients at the City Hospitals Sunderland National Health Service Foundation Trust achieved 99.4 per cent. and 96.7 per cent. respectively.

More detailed information and historic statistics for these standards and the cancer two week wait has been placed in the Library and are available online at:

www.performance.doh.gov.uk/cancerwaits/

Cardiology waiting times at the City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust have been set out in the table shown.

Provider based inpatient cardiology figures, City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

Month

Total waiting

Number waiting over 13 weeks

Percentage of total waiting list waiting over 13 weeks

Number waiting over 26 weeks

Percentage of total waiting list waiting over 26 weeks

1997

March

6

0

0

0

0

1998

March

1

0

0

0

0

1999

March

10

6

60

2

20.0

2000

March

44

4

9.1

1

2.3

2001

March

85

9

10.6

0

0

2002

March

105

12

11.4

1

1.0

2003

March

78

7

9.0

0

0

2004

March

90

2

2.2

0

0

2005

March

42

1

2.4

0

0

2006

March

184

34

18.5

0

0

2006

December

205

11

5.4

0

0

Source: Department of Health, KH07