Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK that waited longer than 18 weeks between GP referral and beginning hospital treatment.

The information is not available in the format requested. Consultant-led referral to Treatment Waiting Times is published by NHS England, by clinical commissioning group (CCG) and provider. The following table shows the number of patients that started consultant-led treatment in September 2016 that waited 18 weeks and over from general practitioner (GP) referral in St Helens, Merseyside and England.

Number of patients in St Helens¹, Merseyside² and England³ that started consultant-led treatment in September 2016 that waited 18 weeks and over from GP referral

Source: Consultant-led referral to treatment, NHS England

Notes:

1. The information is collected by CCG and by provider, but not by parliamentary constituency. NHS St Helens is the closest match to St Helens North constituency.
2. Merseyside is defined as the following CCGs: Knowsley, Liverpool, South Sefton, St Helens, Wirral.
3. Information is shown for England. Health is a devolved matter in the rest of the United Kingdom.
4. Includes patients whose wait ended during the month with an admission to hospital, and patients whose wait ended during the month for reasons other than an admission (for example, they were seen in outpatients).