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Scottish Office

Answer

Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total number of people awaiting an outpatient appointment at each Scottish hospital on (i) 31 January 1997, (ii) 31 January 1998 and (iii) 31 January 1999; and in each case, how many outpatients had been waiting for (a) three to six months and (b) more than six months. [78734] Mr. Galbraith: [holding answer 30 March 1999]: Information on waiting lists is collected only for hospital inpatients and day cases. Data are available quarterly on first outpatient referrals and the length of time that patients waited for their first outpatient appointment. The number of patients who received a first outpatient appointment within three to six months, and more than six months following a General Medical Practitioner/General Dental Practitioner referral, by NHS Trust, for the quarters ending 31 December 1996, 1997 and 1998, is provided in the table. NHS in Scotland: Waiting times for first outpatient appointment from general medical practitioner (GMP)/general dental practitioner (GDP) referral _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Quarter ending 31 December 1996 Quarter ending 31 December 1997 Quarter ending 31 December 1998 {1} NHS Trust/directly Number of Number of Number of Number of Number of Number of managed unit patients who patients who patients who patients who patients who patients who waited 3-6 waited over 6 waited 3-6 waited over 6 waited 3-6 waited over 6 months months months months months months South Ayrshire Hospital 147 21 757 96 811 54 North Ayrshire and Arran 121 9 816 54 250 13 Hospital Ayrshire and Arran 21 3 16 2 2 1 Community Health Care Borders General Hospital 450 88 363 208 340 33 Borders Community Health 0 0 7 0 17 9 Services Royal Alexandra Hospital 1,944 550 1,138 1,236 977 223 Inverclyde Royal 140 8 528 193 662 47 Renfrewshire Healthcare 13 23 52 13 23 15 Lomond Healthcare 200 8 247 21 676 27 Argyll and Bute 205 118 355 92 392 83 Queen Margaret Hospital 985 74 1,244 159 1,415 309 Fife Healthcare 313 35 58 4 16 1 Kirkcaldy Acute 889 64 2,242 220 1,779 409 Hospitals Southern General 1,519 532 2,302 647 1,999 986 Hospitals Yorkhill 764 65 1,793 399 130 55 Victoria Infirmary 2,186 262 2,092 146 2,316 234 West Glasgow Hospitals 2,429 324 2,526 462 3,349 958 University Glasgow Royal Infirmary 1,893 553 2,894 632 3,799 974 University Stobhill 532 33 906 63 849 36 Greater Glasgow 66 17 76 7 113 10 Community and Mental Health Service Glasgow Dental Hospital 842 220 1,306 226 1,581 333 and School Raigmore Hospital 914 338 1,231 429 781 574 Caithness and Sutherland 150 64 220 20 176 66 Highland Communities 12 6 12 2 17 5 Monklands and Bellshill 850 105 1,526 468 1,473 564 Hospitals Law Hospitals 1,081 330 1,849 472 1,540 192 Hairmyres and Stonehouse 867 190 1,143 225 1,463 358 Hospitals Lanarkshire Healthcare 31 15 50 9 73 23 Aberdeen Royal Hospitals 2,393 1,011 2,257 537 2,692 553 Grampian Healthcare 395 51 646 41 520 69 Moray Health Services 127 28 350 24 454 25 Orkney Health Board Unit 2 1 10 2 19 0 West Lothian 1,067 223 1,187 377 1,635 410 Royal Infirmary of 2,537 615 2,767 835 3,879 1,717 Edinburgh Edinburgh Sick 3 2 22 0 117 1 Children's Western General 398 162 826 249 615 398 Hospitals East and Midlothian 154 26 266 72 230 45 Edinburgh Healthcare 50 34 121 17 18 1 Dundee Teaching 2,271 232 1,683 140 2,574 439 Hospitals Perth and Kinross 458 102 995 183 1,305 159 Healthcare Dundee Healthcare 70 49 88 51 90 23 Angus 351 25 388 56 367 126 Stirling Royal Infirmary 110 9 844 42 771 189 Falkirk and District 772 301 888 178 273 187 Royal Infirmary Central Scotland 2 1 1 2 14 22 Healthcare Western Isles Health 80 1 133 33 5 1 Unit Dumfries and Galloway 191 191 419 91 200 67 Acute and Maternity Hospitals Dumfries and Galloway 0 0 0 1 1 0 Community Health Shetland Hospitals and 27 0 22 1 15 2 Community Services Unit _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Provisional Source: ISD, Scotland From 1 July 1999, this will be a matter for the Scottish Parliament.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

329 c191-3W; 78734

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Out-patients Scotland Waiting lists

Contains statistics

Yes