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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the levels of elective admissions to the NHS in Preston in the past five years. [168108] Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is not collected centrally on a constituency basis. Information relating to national health service organisations serving the Preston area is shown in the table. Patients waiting for elective in-patient admission _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Patients waiting for admission by months waiting Month-end NHS Trust Total Less than 3-5 6-8 9-11 12-14 15-17 18 number of 3 months months months months months months months patients March 1997 Chorley 1,857 1,079 463 249 66 -- -- -- and South Kibble NHS Trust March 1997 Preston 8,970 4,137 2,352 1,445 1,000 18 15 3 Acute Hospitals NHS Trust March 1998 Chorley 2,121 1,299 537 183 102 -- -- -- and South Ribble NHS Trust March 1998 Preston 8,500 4,079 1,969 1,334 787 257 74 -- Acute Hospitals NHS Trust March 1999 Chorley 2,051 1,126 527 248 132 17 1 -- and South Ribble NHS Trust March 1999 Preston 7,602 4,154 1,729 1,043 544 132 -- -- Acute Hospitals NHS Trust March 2000 Chorley 1,967 1,228 453 186 90 10 -- -- and South Ribble NHS Trust March 2000 Preston 7,025 4,110 1,701 853 359 2 -- -- Acute Hospitals NHS Trust March 2001 Preston 8,926 5,559 1,987 1,002 378 -- -- -- Acute Hospitals NHS Trust March 2002 Preston 8,891 5,565 2,055 995 276 -- -- -- Acute Hospitals NHS Trust March 2003 Lancashire 8,445 5,473 2,096 711 165 -- -- -- Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust February 2004 Lancashire 8,657 5,642 2,224 791 -- -- -- -- Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was established 1 August 2002 from the acute services of Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust and Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. For 2001 and 2002, data for both trusts was reported under Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Source: DH form KH07 and Monthly Monitoring

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

168108; 422 c1007-8W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Hospitals NHS Patients Waiting lists Surgery Preston

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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