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Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients in London waited for (a) 18 months and over, (b) 12 months and over and (c) six months and over for out-patient admission in each quarter of each of the last five years in each primary care trust. [132333]

Andy Burnham: The information requested is not held centrally. The Department has not collected
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information on waits of over 26 weeks for out-patients since March 2004, as the current target is only 13 weeks. However, the following table shows how many patients waited over 26 weeks for out-patient admission in each London primary care trust (PCT) from 2002 to 2004.

Number waiting over 26 weeks for an out-patient appointment. June 2002 to March 2004, commissioner based
	Number waiting over 26 weeks, month end:
Organisation	June 2002	September 2002	December 2002	March 2003	June 2003	September 2003	December 2003	March 2004
Havering PCT	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kingston PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bromley PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Greenwich PCT	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Barnet PCT	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hillingdon PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bexley PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Enfield PCT	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Barking and Dagenham PCT	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
City and Hackney PCT	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tower Hamlets PCT	24	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Newham PCT	70	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Haringey PCT	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hammersmith and Fulham PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ealing PCT	25	6	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hounslow PCT	0	19	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brent PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Harrow PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Camden PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Islington PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Croydon PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kensington and Chelsea PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Westminster PCT	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lambeth PCT	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Southwark PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lewisham PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wandsworth PCT	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0
Richmond and Twickenham PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sutton and Merton PCT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Walthamstow, Leyton and Leytonstone PC	30	0	0	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Chingford, Wanstead and Woodford PCT	39	0	0	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Redbridge PCT	36	0	0	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Redbridge PCT (new)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0	0	0	0
Waltham Forest PCT	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0	0	0	0
Note: In the financial year 2003-04 Chingford, Wanstead and Woodford PCT divided, part joined Redbridge PCT, which kept its name (and is differentiated from the old PCT using the name Redbridge PCT (new)). The other part joined Walthamstow, Leyton and Leytonshire PCT to become Waltham Forest PCT. Source: Department of Health, QMO8r

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