Monday 01 December 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8934
Date Request Received: 01/10/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 06/10/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: waiting list deaths
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Please provide the following information, broken down by month, between January 2020 and September 2025 inclusive. If this is not possible, please instead provide it broken down by calendar year, 2020 to 2025 inclusive. The number of patients who have died whilst on your waiting list to receive consultant-led elective (planned) hospital treatment — and who have therefore been removed from the list due to their death (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) 1a. If possible, please tell me how many of these people who died had been waiting for longer than 18 weeks after being referred for consultant-led elective hospital treatment? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to this FOI in the spreadsheet attached. Please note that questions 2 and 3 are based on all waiters, not just those waiting longer than 18 weeks. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  13275 - FOI_8934 - Waiting List Deaths - EXTERNAL FILE.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: 2. If possible, please provide a separate breakdown of the ethnicity of all those who died whilst on your waiting list to receive consultant-led elective (planned) hospital treatment over each of these time periods. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see attached | |
| Question Number 3: 3. If possible, for the people who died (those referred to in questions 1 and 1a) please tell me the postcode district (e.g, “SE6”) of their home addresses. (For the avoidance of doubt, I just want to know the first part of the postcode that they lived in). I’m not asking for full postcodes or any individual addresses — only grouped, anonymous figures. These area groupings each typically include at least a thousand residents, so there is no risk of identifying any individual patient. | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see attached | |
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