Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 31 January (HL1876), stating that “If a patient dies whilst on an elective waiting list, the corresponding patient pathway should be removed from the list and recorded appropriately”, how many corresponding patient pathways entries have been removed from the records after the death of a patient.

The data requested is recorded, however it is not reviewed routinely or centrally and is therefore subject to less validation than official statistics. Issues regarding the quality and completeness of this data mean it is not at an adequate level to inform a response.