Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the Liverpool City Region are currently on a waiting list for elective surgery.

The number of patients reported at the end of August 2016 who were on a referral to treatment pathway and were waiting to start consultant-led treatment for each clinical commissioning group (CCG) within the Liverpool City region are shown in the table below. These patients will be at various points along the pathway including, for example, waiting for an outpatient appointment or a diagnostic test. It is therefore not possible to separately identify how many of these patients were waiting for elective surgery or for an outpatient hospital appointment.

Referral to treatment waiting times for incomplete pathways August 2016

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