Angus MacKay
Labour
Question S1W-30071
To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many people were on hospital waiting lists and (b) what the average length of waiting time for an operation was in each year since 1996.
Malcolm Chisholm
Labour
Information on the number of in-patients and day cases on the true waiting list, and the median length of waiting time before an acute hospital admission is provided in the following tables.
Table 1
| TOP" width="54%"> As At Year Ended | Number on True Waiting List |
31 March 1996 | 82,640 |
31 March 1997 | 84,649 |
31 March 1998 | 89,525 |
31 March 1999 | 70,227 |
31 March 2000 | 82,334 |
31 March 2001 | 81,968 |
31 March 2002 | 71,962 |
Table 2
Year Ended | Median Wait (Days) |
31 March 1996 | 32 |
31 March 1997 | 31 |
31 March 1998 | 34 |
31 March 1999 | 32 |
31 March 2000 | 31 |
31 March 2001 | 34 |
31 March 2002 | 34 |
Information on hospital waiting lists is published quarterly by the Information and Statistics Division on its Acute Activity, Waiting Times and Waiting List website. The web address is http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/isd/acute_activity/index.htm.
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