Neurology: Greater London
(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for (a) neurology services and (b) neurosurgery in (i) Enfield North constituency, (ii) the London Borough of Enfield and (iii) London in each year since 2012.
The information requested is not held centrally at constituency level.
The following table shows the average (median) waiting time in weeks for incomplete patient pathways at the end of March for each year within the London commissioning region for the neurology and neurosurgery treatment functions.
Date | Neurology Services average wait time (weeks) | Neurosurgery average wait time (weeks) |
March 2014 | 5.8 | 8.0 |
March 2015 | 5.7 | 7.6 |
March 2016 | 6.8 | 9.0 |
March 2017 | 7.2 | 7.5 |
March 2018 | 7.3 | 7.6 |
March 2019 | 7.7 | 7.7 |
March 2020 | 9.9 | 10.3 |
March 2021 | 7.8 | 13.0 |
March 2022 | 10.9 | 15.8 |
March 2023 | 15.3 | 17.7 |
Source: Published NHSE Referral to Treatment waiting times statistics
Note: Average incomplete waiting times were not published prior to 2013/14.