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Waiting List Deaths

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients have died while on waiting lists for treatment in the last 12 months, excluding causes of death not related to the condition giving rise to the treatment. [109558]

Andy Burnham: This information is not collected centrally.


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Waiting Times

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will take steps to inform patients of the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust whose waiting times have been extended by the manipulation of waiting time figures of the options for redress available to them. [109716]

Andy Burnham: It is for the local primary care trust (PCT) and the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust to ensure that adequate systems for redress are available to patients disadvantaged by the recent waiting list problems at the trust.

All patients formerly on the suspended list have now either been appropriately removed from the list, treated, or given a date to come in for treatment, and the expectation is that all patients will have been seen by the beginning of March.

West Hertfordshire Hospital Trust

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will refer the reconfiguration of hospital services by West Hertfordshire Hospital Trust to the independent reconfiguration panel; and if she will make a statement. [105167]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: It is for local authorities’ overview and scrutiny committees (OSCs) to consider proposals for service change, as part of the consultation process. OSCs have the power to refer any proposal to the Secretary of State if they believe the proposal is not in the interests of the health service or if consultation has been inadequate. Should this happen, the Secretary of State would consider seeking the advice of the independent reconfiguration panel before a final decision was made.

York Hospitals NHS Trust

Hugh Bayley: 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 York Hospitals NHS Trust in each year since 1997-98. [106450]

Andy Burnham: The information requested is in the tables.

In-patients provider waiting list statistics for the York Hospitals Trust since 1998, day case admissions
In-patients waiting for admission by months waiting
Quarter ending March: Total waiting list 0 to less than 3 months 3 to less than 6 months 6 to less than 9 months 9 to less than 12 months 12 to less than 15 months 15 to less than 18 months 18+ months Median (weeks)

1998

5,485

2,496

1,227

877

647

191

47

0

15.6

1999

4,236

2,228

1,075

655

278

0

0

0

12.4

2000

3,864

1,850

1,075

695

243

1

0

0

14.0

2001

3,663

1694

909

654

406

0

0

0

15.0

2002

3,485

1,610

947

585

343

0

0

0

14.8

2003

3,745

1,822

983

583

357

0

0

0

13.7

2004

3,336

1,858

993

485

0

0

0

0

11.7


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In-patients waiting for:
Quarter ending March: Total waiting list Less than 1 month 1 to <2 months 2 to <3 months 3 to <4 months 4 to <5 months

2005

3,099

753

676

498

373

337

2006

2,977

847

707

516

383

347


Quarter ending March: 5 to <6 months 6 to <7 months 7 to <8 months 8 to <9 months 9+ months Median (weeks)

2005

211

148

69

34

0

9.7

2006

177

0

0

0

0

8.3


In-patients waiting for admission by weeks waiting
Quarter ending September: Total waiting list Less than 1 week 1 to <2 weeks 2 to <3 weeks 3 to <4 weeks 4 to <5 weeks 5 to <6 weeks 6 to <7 weeks 7 to <8 weeks

2006

2,755

207

218

168

162

183

175

142

115


Quarter ending September: 8 to <9 weeks 9 to <10 weeks 10 to <11 weeks 11 to <12 weeks 12 to <13 weeks 13 to <14 weeks 14 to <15 weeks 15 to <16 weeks

2006

141

118

116

90

97

74

107

88


Quarter ending September: 16 to <17 weeks 17 to <18 weeks 18 to <19 weeks 19 to <20 weeks 20 to <21 weeks 21 to <22 weeks 22 to <23 weeks

2006

72

59

88

78

71

47

53


23 to <24 weeks 24 to <25 weeks 25 to <26 weeks 26+ weeks Median (weeks)

2006

23

26

37

0

8.1

Notes:
1. The format of the collection has changed since 1997 where the time bands were collected in months.
2. Time bands of patients waiting are now collected in weeks.
3. The shortest waiting time is represented by the shortest time band collected and similarly the longest waiting time is represented by the longest time band collected.
Source:
Department of Health KH07.

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent (a) medical consultants, (b) other medical staff, (c) nurses and (d) other (i) professionally qualified clinical staff and (ii) staff were employed by York hospitals NHS trust, excluding those specialties and functions transferred to the primary care trust, in each year since 1992. [106453]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The information is not available in the format requested.

The following tables are based on the medical and dental and non-medical work force census returns for 1995-2005. As the table shows, it is impossible to arrive at a clean split of staff and services in the sense that one group ceases to exist in the trust and takes up residence in the primary care trust. The tables have been supplied to show how many staff, and their work areas are in the trust and the PCT.

Hospital and community health services (HCHS): medical and dental staff working in specified organisations by grade and year as at 30 September each year
York hospitals NHS trust
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

All staff

171

182

186

232

215

261

274

283

Consultant

70

77

82

87

72

102

98

110

Other staff

101

104

103

145

143

159

176

172


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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
York hospitals NHS trust Selby and York PCT York hospitals NHS trust Selby and York PCT York hospitals NHS trust Selby and York PCT York hospitals NHS trust Selby and York PCT York hospitals NHS trust Selby and York PCT

All staff

258

10

237

30

294

30

320

39

344

42

Consultant

120

1

113

14

119

15

131

18

149

21

Other staff

138

9

124

16

174

15

189

22

195

21

Notes:
1. Data is available for the Selby and York PCT from 2001. Some specialties and functions that were carried out by the York hospitals trust were probably transferred to the PCT at this time.
2. The data are reported for the Trust and the PCT by staff group from 2001.
Source:
The Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census

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