PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hospitals: Bristol (19 April 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for hospital referrals in Bristol in each of the last five years; and how many and what proportion of patients in Bristol waited longer than 18 weeks for surgery in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

The information is shown in the following table.

Average waiting time, number and percentage of patients who had been waiting longer than 18 weeks for treatment (not all treatment will include surgery) in April in each of the last five years (where data is available), NHS Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)

Month	Average (median) waiting time (weeks)	Numbers of patients waiting over 18 weeks	Percentage of patients waiting over 18 weeks
April-2012	N/A	N/A	N/A
April-2013	6.7	1,635	6.1%
April-2014	6.8	2,361	8.0%
April-2015	6.8	2,613	10.2%
April-2016	7.1	2,710	9.2%

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

Notes: CCGs were created following the Health and Social Care Act in 2012, and were formed on 1 April 2013.

Answered by:
Philip Dunne (Conservative)
24 April 2017