Hugh Bayley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients had been waiting for (a) over six months and (b) three months for in-patient admission at York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in March 1997 and in each year since.

Jane Ellison

Information is not available in the format requested. Information on the number of patients waiting over six months and three months for in-patient admission at what is now York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust from March 1997 to March 2010 is shown in the attached table.

Since 2007, waiting times on a referral to treatment (RTT) basis have been published. Information on the number of patients who waited over six months and over three months on an admitted RTT pathway at York Teaching Hospital NHS FT between March 2008 and March 2012 is shown in the attached table.