Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England have been waiting for more than one year for hospital treatment.
The number of incomplete referral-to-treatment pathways where a patient is waiting over 52 weeks for treatment in Coventry, the West Midlands and England is provided in the following table. Data provided is for July 2020 and is the most recent available:
Provider/National | Number waiting over 52 weeks |
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust | 475 |
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust | 142 |
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust | 177 |
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 24 |
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | 1,599 |
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | 293 |
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust | 9 |
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust | 473 |
South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust | 49 |
Wye Valley NHS Trust | 262 |
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 481 |
England | 83,203 |
NHS England collects and publishes referral-to-treatment performance data at both a local and national level. Data is available via the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/