Hospital Statistics Bulletin

Ms. Harman
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when he published last year's national health service hospital activity statistics bulletin;(2) when he received the draft of the new national health service hospital activity statistics bulletin; and when he intends to publish the bulletin.

Mr. Waldegrave
The bulletin containing statistics of NHS hospitals activity and facilities in 1989–90 was published on 12 December 1990.I received the draft bulletin giving comparable figures for 1990–91 on 19 February, and intend to publish it shortly, as drafted.

Ms. Harman
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many patients were removed from waiting lists (a) by admission for treatment and (b) for reasons other than treatment in each district in each of the four Thames regional health authorities in each six month period since September 1988;(2) when the honourable Member for Peckham may expect a substantive reply to her question on waiting lists of 10 February.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
[holding answer 10 February 1992]: We do not routinely collate information on all district health authorities centrally. For the relevant information at regional level, I refer the hon. Member to-------------------------------------------------
|Region                                         |
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|Northern RHA                                   |
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|Yorkshire RHA                                  |
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|Trent RHA                                      |
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|East Anglia RHA                                |
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|North West Thames RHA                          |
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|North East Thames RHA                          |
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|South East Thames RHA                          |
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|South West Thames RHA                          |
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|Wessex RHA                                     |
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|Oxford RHA                                     |
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|South Western RHA                              |
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|West Midlands RHA                              |
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|Mersey RHA                                     |
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|North Western RHA                              |
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|London post graduate special Health Authorities|
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|England Total4                                 |
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Source: Department of Health (SMI3) annual census of NHS medical and non-medical manpower.

the reply I gave the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) on 29 January at columns 599–602. In the three years to March 1991, nearly 2·1 million patients were admitted from waiting lists in the Thames regions. In the same period the names of a further 290,122 were removed for other reasons, for example, because they had already been treated, had moved, or no longer needed treatment. This is good practice in line with the Royal College of Surgeons guidelines.