The data are not collected in the format requested. However, average waiting times for all audiological assessments as at December 2007, including assessment for digital hearing aids, are shown in the following table.
Primary care trust Median waiting times (weeks) Newcastle PCT 4.4 North Tyneside PCT 4.3 Hartlepool PCT 2.5 North Tees PCT 4.4 Darlington PCT 45.1 Gateshead PCT 3.3 South Tyneside PCT 2.9 Sunderland Teaching PCT 2.7 Middlesbrough PCT 2.6 County Durham 39.6 Redcar and Cleveland 3.3 Northumberland Care Trust 5.0 Blackburn With Darwen PCT 2.9 Salford PCT 1.9 Stockport PCT 1— Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT 5.7 Blackpool PCT 7.8 Bolton PCT 1.5 Warrington PCT 6.0 Knowsley PCT 7.9 Oldham PCT 1.8 Bury PCT 1.5 Tameside and Glossop PCT 1.7 Cumbria 4.4 North Lancashire 3.9 Central Lancashire 19.1 East Lancashire 3.0 Sefton 2.6 Wirral 4.3 Liverpool 8.6 Halton and St. Helens 7.8 West Cheshire 1— Central and Eastern Cheshire 3.8 Rochdale, Heywood and Middleton 0.7 Trafford 2.9 Manchester 0.6 North Lincolnshire PCT 6.6 Rotherham PCT 1.2 Calderdale PCT 3.4 Barnsley PCT 3.0 Leeds 9.2 Kirklees 3.5 Wakefield 3.5 Sheffield 4.3 Doncaster 2.8 North Yorkshire and York 4.5 East Riding of Yorkshire 1— Hull Teaching 43.8 Bradford and Airedale Teaching 6.3 North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus 6.3 Nottingham City PCT 2.7 Bassetlaw PCT 2.8 Derbyshire County 3.4 Derby City 4.9 Nottinghamshire County Teaching 2.7 Lincolnshire Teaching 5.7 Leicestershire County and Rutland 4.3 Leicester City Teaching 4.3 Northamptonshire Teaching 4.4 Herefordshire PCT 1— South Birmingham PCT 4.3 Shropshire County PCT 5.4 Walsall PCT 3.4 Coventry PCT 4.7 Telford and Wrekin PCT 5.3 Wolverhampton City PCT 3.9 Heart of Birmingham PCT 4.4 Dudley 3.2 Sandwell 3.7 Birmingham East and North 3.8 North Staffordshire 48.3 Stoke on Trent Teaching 1— South Staffordshire 3.3 Worcestershire 3.1 Warwickshire 4.7 Solihull PCT 3.4 Luton PCT 5.4 South East Essex 4.0 Bedfordshire 6.0 East and North Hertfordshire 3.5 West Hertfordshire 3.4 Peterborough 2.7 Cambridgeshire 3.3 Norfolk 3.9 Great Yarmouth and Waveney Teaching 3.5 Suffolk 3.1 West Essex 3.8 North East Essex 4.6 Mid Essex 3.3 South West Essex Teaching 3.5 Havering PCT 20.0 Kingston PCT 27.0 Bromley PCT 4.6 Greenwich PCT 4.1 Barnet PCT 3.3 Hillingdon PCT 3.0 Enfield PCT 7.4 Barking and Dagenham PCT 10.3 City and Hackney PCT 4.1 Tower Hamlets PCT 2.8 Newham PCT 3.6 Haringey PCT 8.0 Hammersmith and Fulham PCT 6.6 Ealing PCT 31.8 Hounslow PCT 14.0 Brent PCT 6.4 Harrow PCT 4.4 Camden PCT 4.3 Islington PCT 5.0 Croydon PCT 3.3 Kensington and Chelsea PCT 6.4 Westminster PCT 6.1 Lambeth PCT 4.6 Southwark PCT 5.0 Lewisham PCT 4.3 Wandsworth PCT 3.7 Richmond and Twickenham PCI 13.4 Sutton and Merton PCT 3.9 Redbridge PCT 3.8 Waltham Forest PCT 6.2 Bexley Care Trust 4.1 Medway PCT 5.2 Brighton and Hove City PCT 12.8 Surrey 5.5 West Sussex Teaching 15.9 East Sussex Downs and Weald 19.2 Hastings and Rother 2.7 West Kent 21.0 Eastern and Coastal Kent Teaching 51.7 Milton Keynes PCT 3.2 Portsmouth City PCT 13.1 Southampton City PCT 2.8 Hampshire 6.7 Buckinghamshire 4.5 Oxfordshire 4.4 Berkshire West 4.7 Berkshire East Teaching 6.5 Isle of Wight Healthcare 11.2 South Gloucestershire PCT 4.0 Plymouth PCT 2.7 Bath and North East Somerset PCT 8.8 Swindon PCT 2.4 North Somerset PCT 12.8 Gloucestershire 27.4 Bristol Teaching 3.7 Wiltshire 6.4 Somerset 5.2 Dorset 4.5 Bournemouth and Poole Teaching 4.3 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 2.8 Devon 3.2 Torbay Care Trust 1.1 1 Over 52 weeks. Notes: 1. PCT data will be affected by estimates made for Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals NHS trust that may not reflect their true position. 2. Median waits are calculated from aggregate returns, and are therefore only an estimate of the average wait. 3. PCTs where the median falls in the 52+ week timeband are shown as ‘over 52 weeks’. Source: Dept of Health form DM01