PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
York Hospital (20 March 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of patients referred to York Hospital for (a) elective surgery and (b) outpatient appointments waited longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment in each year since 2009-10; and what the average waiting time was in each of those years.

Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)

NHS England publishes monthly data on referral to treatment waiting times to report performance against the legal right that patients have to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions.

Waiting times for patients whose treatment started during the month and involved admission to hospital are described in the data as admitted pathways. Not all admissions to hospitals are for surgery. Waiting times for patients whose treatment started during the month and did not involve admission to hospital, for example outpatients, are described in the data as non-admitted pathways.

The information requested for York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is shown in the following table.

NHS Improvement advise that York NHS Foundation Trust is working to improve referral to treatment performance, with several areas of work underway such as maximising theatre and outpatient capacity and working with commissioners on managing future demand for pressurised specialties such as dermatology.

Number and percentage of admitted pathways and non-admitted pathways longer than 18 weeks and average median waiting times at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in each year since 2009-10

Year	Admitted pathways			Non-admitted pathways
	Number of pathways more than 18 weeks	Percentage of pathways more than 18 weeks	Median waiting time (weeks) in March	Number of pathways more than 18 weeks	Percentage of pathways more than 18 weeks	Median waiting time (weeks) in March
2009-10	1,439	8.8%	8.1	1,473	2.6%	3.1
2010-11	1,136	6.8%	7.8	1,263	2.1%	3.5
2011-12	1,584	9.9%	11.3	1,141	1.8%	3.2
2012-13	1,998	8.7%	10.8	3,115	3.4%	3.6
2013-14	2,790	11.0%	13.2	4,642	4.5%	4.5
2014-15	4,140	16.3%	12.8	4,010	4.1%	4.6
2015-16	6,307	24.0%	11.6	4,606	4.8%	5.0

Source: Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times, NHS England

Notes:

1. York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust acquired Scarborough Hospital in 2012.

Answered by:
Philip Dunne (Conservative)
28 March 2017