Surgery: Halton
(asked on 13th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients from Halton Borough have been waiting for more than 18 weeks for a surgical procedure.
The information requested is available from the web link below:
Patients have a legal right, set out in the NHS Constitution, to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions. The referral to treatment (RTT) waiting time standard is that 92% of patients still waiting to start treatment (incomplete pathways) should have been waiting no more than 18 weeks from referral at the end of each month.
At the end of February 2016 Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reported 24,902 patients waiting to start consultant-led treatment were on an incomplete RTT pathway. 23,069 (92.6%) of these were waiting within 18 weeks from referral, while 1,833 patients were waiting more than 18 weeks. It is not possible to identify how many patients were waiting for surgical procedures.