Hospitals: Waiting Lists

(asked on 23rd September 2020) - View Source

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.


Answered by
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Edward Argar
This question was answered on 30th September 2020

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/

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