Health written question – answered at on 28 November 2001.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list in (a) rank and (b) alphabetical order of health authority the (i) proportion and (ii) number of patients waiting (A) over 12 months and (B) over 18 months for in-patient treatment (1) at the last available date, (2) in March 1997 and (3) in June 1997.
holding answer
The information requested has been placed in the Library.
In line with the NHS Plan, inpatient waiting times will fall on a staged basis from 18 months now through to 15,12, nine and down to six months by 2005. As a result, we expect the average time patients wait for inpatient treatment to fall from three months to seven weeks.
As a first step towards this, the maximum waiting time for an inpatient appointment will be 15 months by the end of March 2002
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