Great Western Hospital: Waiting Lists Mr. Gray To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) average and (b) maximum waiting time for (i) in-patient and (ii) day case admissions was at the Great Western Hospital in each year since 1997. Mr. Bradshaw The data for the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, formerly known as the Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust, as at March for each specified year, are given as follows. 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| |Median waiting time (in weeks) |Maximum waiting time| 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|Period ending |In-patient (ordinary) admission|Day case |All patients waiting|In-patient (ordinary) admission|Day case admission|All patients| 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|March 1997 |22.8 |14.2 |19.0|15-18 months|15-18 months|15-18 months| 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|March 1998 |21.4 |15.9 |18.3|15-18 months|15-18 months|15-18 months| 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|March 1999 |26.6 |18.8 |22.6|15-18 months|15-18 months|15-18 months| 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|March 2000 |22.6 |17.5 |19.9|15-18 months|15-18 months|15-18 months| 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|March 2001 |19.2 |11.0 |13.9|15-18 months|15-18 months|15-18 months| 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|March 2002 |16.5 |9.7 |12.0|12-15 months|12-15 months|12-15 months| 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|March 2003 |17.0 |9.3 |11.8|9-12 months|9-12 months|9-12 months| 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|March 2004 |15.8 |9.6 |11.5|6-9 months|6-9 months|6-9 months| 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|March 2005 |13.4 |9.2 |10.4|8-9 months|8-9 months|8-9 months| 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|March 2006 |9.8 |8.6 |9.0|5-6 months|5-6 months|5-6 months| 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|March 2007 |11.4 |10.5 |10.8|25-26 weeks|25-26 weeks|25-26 weeks| 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|September 2007 |7.8 |6.5 |6.9|19-0 weeks|18-19 weeks|19-20 weeks| 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|March 2008 |n/a |n/a |5.9|n/a|n/a|19-20 weeks| 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|December 2008 |n/a |n/a |5.5|n/a|n/a|17-18 weeks| 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|1 Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust, March 1997-March 2008, in December 2008 it became Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNotes:1. Figures show the median waiting times for patients still waiting for admission at the end of the period stated.2. In-patient waiting times are measured from the decision to admit by the consultant to the admission to hospital.3. Median waiting times are calculated from aggregate data, rather than patient level data, and therefore are only estimates of the position on average waits.4. Data no longer collected by in-patient/day case split after 30 September 20075. Waiting times data collected in weekly time bands from 1 April 2007 and the maximum time band show the patient with the longest wait at the end of that period6. Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust was in existence until December 2008, it then became the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.Source:Department of Health Quarterly Waiting Times KH07 and MMRPROV| | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------