Dan Rogerson
Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting time was for outpatient psychiatric care in each NHS Trust in the latest period for which figures are available.
Rosie Winterton
The Minister of State, Department of Health
holding answer
Information on the median waiting time for a first out-patient appointment with a mental health consultant in the latest period for which figures are available is shown in the following table. It should be noted that waiting times collected by the Department relate to consultant-led services only.
| Provider based out-patient waiting time information, mental health specialties, end of March 2007 | ||||||
| Number waiting (weeks) | ||||||
| Organisation name | Total number waiting | Median waiting time (weeks) | 0 <4 | 4 <8 | 8 <13 | 13+ |
| Herefordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) | 76 | 2.2 | 61 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| Milton Keynes PCT | 101 | 6.7 | 12 | 51 | 38 | 0 |
| North Lincolnshire PCT | 4 | n/a | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Portsmouth City PCT | 47 | n/a | 37 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Blackpool PCT | 54 | 4.0 | 27 | 21 | 6 | 0 |
| Barnsley PCT | 4 | n/a | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Walsall PCT | 11 | n/a | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Wolverhampton City PCT | 65 | 2.2 | 47 | 16 | 2 | 0 |
| Central Lancashire | 33 | n/a | 20 | 10 | 3 | 0 |
| North Yorkshire and York | 42 | n/a | 33 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| Dudley | 84 | 3.5 | 48 | 27 | 9 | 0 |
| Hampshire | 39 | n/a | 26 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| Isle of Wight Healthcare | 45 | n/a | 38 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust | 7 | n/a | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust | 4 | n/a | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Leeds Community and Mental Health Services Teaching NHS Trust | 188 | 3.5 | 104 | 65 | 19 | 0 |
| Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust | 28 | n/a | 18 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | 309 | 2.8 | 196 | 88 | 25 | 0 |
| West London Mental Health NHS Trust | 475 | 3.1 | 302 | 158 | 15 | 0 |
| City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust | 30 | n/a | 5 | 15 | 10 | 0 |
| Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust | 4 | n/a | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust | 21 | n/a | 15 | 6J | 0 | 0 |
| Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust | 132 | 3.3 | 77 | 42 | 13 | 0 |
| North Cumbria Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Trust | 39 | n/a | 22 | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust | 61 | 2.6 | 46 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust | 5 | n/a | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lincolnshire Healthcare NHS Trust | 113 | 3.0 | 67 | 32 | 14 | 0 |
| Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust | 82 | 6.6 | 21 | 32 | 29 | 0 |
| SW London and St. Georges NHS Trust | 858 | 3.6 | 511 | 272 | 75 | 0 |
| Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust | 90 | 2.5 | 66 | 22 | 2 | 0 |
| North Essex Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust | 242 | 2.2 | 190 | 44 | 8 | 0 |
| South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | 37 | n/a | 20 | 15 | 2 | 0 |
| University College London NHS Foundation Trust | 4 | n/a | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pennine Care NHS Trust | 154 | 2.4 | 111 | 42 | 1 | 0 |
| Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust | 432 | 3.1 | 282 | 138 | 12 | 0 |
| Suffolk Mental Health Partnerships NHS Trust | 3 | n/a | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 Borough Partnership NHS Trust | 92 | 3.8 | 49 | 38 | 5 | 0 |
| Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust | 299 | 3.9 | 152 | 113 | 34 | 0 |
| Hull and East Riding Community Health NHS Trust | 170 | 2.8 | 112 | 53 | 5 | 0 |
| North Bristol NHS Trust | 31 | n/a | 9 | 16 | 6 | 0 |
| Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS | 130 | 4.4 | 60 | 57 | 13 | 0 |
| Mersey Care NHS Trust | 576 | 2.8 | 379 | 182 | 15 | 0 |
| Lancashire Care NHS Trust | 52 | 4.1 | 25 | 22 | 5 | 0 |
| East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust | 175 | 4.3 | 79 | 80 | 16 | 0 |
| South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | 2 | n/a | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust | 22 | n/a | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust | 97 | 2.3 | 71 | 22 | 4 | 0 |
| Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Trust | 170 | 2.6 | 119 | 40 | 11 | 0 |
| Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust | 23 | n/a | 11 | 10 | 2 | 0 |
| Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust | 34 | n/a | 20 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust | 259 | 3.2 | 165 | 73 | 21 | 0 |
| Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust | 248 | 2.6 | 179 | 64 | 5 | 0 |
| Bolton, Salford and Trafford Mental Health NHS Trust | 254 | 3.1 | 160 | 69 | 25 | 0 |
| Bradford District Care Trust | 102 | 2.8 | 68 | 32 | 2 | 0 |
| Manchester Health and Social Care Trust | 238 | 3.0 | 150 | 77 | 11 | 0 |
| Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust | 3 | n/a | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Sandwell Mental Health NHS and Care Trust | 65 | 2.0 | 52 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| Notes: 1. The figures are based on combined data from the following mental health specialties: mental illness, child and adolescent psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, psychotherapy and old age psychiatry. 2. Statistically meaningful medians cannot be calculated where there is a total waiting list of less than 50. Source: Department of Health QM08 | ||||||
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