Hospitals: Waiting Lists
(asked on 16th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were waiting for a diagnostic test in NHS Trusts on 31 March in each year from 2011 to 2019.
The following table shows the number and percentage of patients waiting over six weeks for an endoscopy test in March of each year from 2010 and the number of patients waiting for a diagnostic test in March of each year from 2011:
Year | Numbers waiting 6+ weeks for an endoscopy test | Percentage waiting 6+ weeks for an endoscopy test | Numbers waiting for a diagnostic test |
March 2010 | 1,391 | 1.7% | N/A |
March 2011 | 4,008 | 4.6% | 575,638 |
March 2012 | 2,265 | 2.5% | 625,054 |
March 2013 | 2,332 | 2.7% | 677,731 |
March 2014 | 2,636 | 2.8% | 789,392 |
March 2015 | 7,004 | 6.0% | 842,263 |
March 2016 | 6,086 | 5.6% | 876,329 |
March 2017 | 3,181 | 2.9% | 943,010 |
March 2018 | 5,685 | 5.3% | 979,831 |
March 2019 | 9,178 | 7.5% | 1,071,744 |
NHS England collects and publishes waiting times performance data for all diagnostic tests on a monthly basis. This is available at a trust and national level via the following link: