Monday 03 November 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8831
Date Request Received: 07/08/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 18/08/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Waiting lists
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: I am sending this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to ask for the following information: Please can you tell me: The number of patients who have died while on your waiting list to recieve consultant-led elective (planned) hospital treatment — and who have therefore been removed from the list due to to their death or status as being deceased — between January 1 2025 and July 31 2025? (If your trust calls this particular waiting list something else, please use common sense and provide the waiting list data most relevant to my questions.) a. If possible, please tell me how many of these people who died had been waiting for longer than 18 weeks since being referred for consultant-led elective hospital treatment? b. If possible, please provide a seperate breakdown of the ethnicity and religion of all those who died while on this your waiting list to recieve consultant-led elective (planned) hospital treatment over this time period. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response in the attached file. Please note, for the question about Religion we have grouped together results that indicate the religion is either Not Specified (unknown) or Not Given/Not Stated. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  13187 - FOI_8831 - Waiting lists.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: The number of patients who have died while on your waiting list to recieve consultant-led elective (planned) hospital treatment — and who have therefore been removed from the list due to to their death or status as being deceased — broken down into the years 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020, please. a. If possible, please provide a seperate breakdown of the ethnicity and religion of those who died while on you waiting list for consultant-led elective (planned) hospital treatment in each of these years. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see attached | |
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Our staff at Salisbury District Hospital have long been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment they provide for our patients and for their innovation, commitment and professionalism. This has been recognised in a wide range of achievements and it is reflected in our award of NHS Foundation Trust status. This is afforded to hospitals that provide the highest standards of care.
