199445 - Hospitals: Waiting Lists (Answered)
Mrs Anne Main
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the current average waiting time is for elective surgery in (a) St Albans constituency, (b) Hertfordshire, (c) the East of England and (d) England.
Jane Ellison
The information is shown in the following table.
Average (median) waiting time in weeks from referral to admission to hospital for consultant-led elective treatment, March 2014
|
Area |
National Health Service organisation |
Number of weeks |
|
St Albans |
NHS Herts Valley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) |
10.0 |
|
Hertfordshire |
NHS Herts Valley CCG |
10.0 |
|
NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG |
8.6 |
|
|
East of England |
East Anglia Area Team |
8.6 |
|
Essex Area Team |
10.2 |
|
|
Hertfordshire and the South Midlands Area Team |
8.3 |
|
|
England |
8.8 |
Source:
Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times, commissioner data for admitted patient pathways, March 2014. Published by NHS England at:
www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/r...