Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients are on a waiting list for each type of treatment in England; and how many of those people have been on a waiting list for longer than 18 weeks.
Information is not available in the format requested. The table below provides the volume of incomplete referral to treatment pathways in England for January 2018 by treatment type. This is not a count of individual patients as a patient may be on more than one pathway.
Treatment function | Total | % within 18 weeks |
General Surgery | 298,490 | 85.0% |
Urology | 196,046 | 87.8% |
Trauma and Orthopaedics | 462,748 | 84.0% |
Ear, Nose and Throat | 268,845 | 86.5% |
Ophthalmology | 388,092 | 88.6% |
Oral Surgery | 152,878 | 86.0% |
Neurosurgery | 29,468 | 84.2% |
Plastic Surgery | 45,569 | 82.2% |
Cardiothoracic Surgery | 8,143 | 83.9% |
General Medicine | 49,278 | 93.6% |
Gastroenterology | 186,193 | 91.0% |
Cardiology | 183,365 | 89.9% |
Dermatology | 184,288 | 90.0% |
Thoracic Medicine | 93,820 | 89.1% |
Neurology | 108,773 | 86.9% |
Rheumatology | 75,717 | 92.1% |
Geriatric Medicine | 19,035 | 96.1% |
Gynaecology | 217,633 | 89.3% |
Other | 760,709 | 90.7% |
England | 3,729,090 | 88.2% |
Source: NHS England consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times data.