Speeches

George Howarth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by George Howarth on 2016-10-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the Liverpool City Region are currently on a waiting list for elective surgery.

Mr Philip Dunne

The number of patients reported at the end of August 2016 who were on a referral to treatment pathway and were waiting to start consultant-led treatment for each clinical commissioning group (CCG) within the Liverpool City region are shown in the table below. These patients will be at various points along the pathway including, for example, waiting for an outpatient appointment or a diagnostic test. It is therefore not possible to separately identify how many of these patients were waiting for elective surgery or for an outpatient hospital appointment.

Referral to treatment waiting times for incomplete pathways August 2016

CCG

August 2016

Halton CCG

9,777

Knowsley CCG

10,673

Liverpool CCG

31,529

South Sefton CCG

11,052

Southport and Formby CCG

8,252

St Helens CCG

11,840

Wirral CCG

21,880

Total

105,003

Source: Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times, NHS England