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York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Waiting Times

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 Foundation Trust in the quarter ending (A) December 2006, (B) March 2007 and (C) June 2007. [285868]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information on the waiting time for York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is shown in the following table:

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	Month ending	Type	Median waiting time (weeks)	Time band containing the longest waiter (weeks)
2006-07	December 2006	Day case	8.5	25-26
	December 2006	Ordinary	7.8	25-26
	March 2007	Day case	6.7	19-20
	March 2007	Ordinary	6.5	19-20
2007-08	June 2007	Day case	6.0	19-20
	June 2007	Ordinary	6.5	19-20
Notes: 1. The 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 measure from decision to admit by the consultant to 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. Source: KH07

York Hospitals NHS Trust: Manpower

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent (a) medical consultants, (b) other medical staff, (c) nurses, (d) other professional staff, (e) administrative and clerical staff and (f) auxiliary staff were employed by York NHS Trust, excluding those transferred to Selby and York Primary Care Trust, in each year since 1996-97. [285869]

Ann Keen: The data are not available in the format requested. The following table shows national health service staff at the York Hospitals NHS Trust by main staff group as at 30 September each specified year.

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Full-time equivalent
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
All Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) Medical and Dental Consultants	102	98	110	109	120	113	119	131	149	155	158	157
Of which:
Medical Consultant	97	93	103	104	115	108	114	125	144	150	152	152
All HCHS Other Medical and Dental staff	159	176	172	171	138	124	174	189	195	215	222	217
Of which:
Medical Other	153	166	161	160	131	119	166	180	184	206	212	208
All Non-Medical staff	3,399	3,230	3,234	3,451	2,967	2,605	2,817	2,927	2,958	3,149	3,067	3,232
Professionally qualified clinical staff	1,771	1,667	1,707	1,840	1,476	1,270	1,335	1,393	1,430	1,539	1,517	1,513
Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff	1,362	1,235	1,268	1,375	1,132	915	948	990	1,023	1,111	1,071	1,030
Qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff	409	431	438	465	344	355	387	402	407	428	446	483
Qualified Allied Health Professions	228	246	245	257	154	169	187	195	194	206	214	231
Qualified Healthcare Scientists	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	94	98	105	113	111	138
Other Qualified Scientific, therapeutic and technical (ST&T) staff	181	186	193	208	189	186	106	109	109	109	121	114
Support to clinical staff	1,021	974	945	1,014	936	788	885	908	908	1,009	968	885
Support to doctors and nursing staff	915	866	832	887	783	605	688	707	696	793	764	670
Support to ST&T staff	105	108	113	128	153	183	197	201	212	217	203	215
NHS infrastructure support	602	583	576	591	554	548	597	626	621	600	583	834
Central functions	166	155	190	208	171	183	196	215	202	184	246	307
Hotel, property and estates	344	331	290	291	299	286	304	311	320	302	303	457
Managers and senior managers	92	97	96	92	84	79	97	100	99	114	33	70
Other staff or those with unknown classification	6	6	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
n/a = Not applicable. Figures for Healthcare Scientists were not separately identifiable until 2003. Notes: 1. Full-time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number. Data Quality: 2. Workforce statistics are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts in England. The NHS Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data. Processing methods and procedures are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where this happens, any impact on figures already published will be assessed but unless this is significant at national level, they will not be changed. Where there is impact only at detailed or local level, this will be footnoted in relevant analyses. Sources: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census. The NHS Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census.

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