FOI 2025-113068 :: East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Reference	FOI 2025-113068
Description	Jan 2020 - sept 2025 patients waiting lists
Date Requested	03/10/25
Date Replied	29/10/25
Category	Informatics Statistics waiting list

Request

Response

Data for 2020 is not available. In relation to your query regarding patients who were on a waiting list and subsequently died, please note that the Trust does not hold information regarding the cause of death for the patients referenced. Therefore, it cannot be assumed that their deaths were related to the condition for which they were on the waiting list.

1. The number of patients who have died whilst on your waiting list to receive consultant-led elective (planned) hospital treatment
	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of patients removed from RTT pathway due to patients death	161	240	591	915	498

1a. how many of these people who died had been waiting for longer than 18 weeks
	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of patients removed from RTT pathway due to patients death waiting longer than 18 weeks	46	88	212	365	155

2. breakdown of the ethnicity
	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Asian - Any Other Asian Background	0	0	<5	8	5
Asian or Asian British - Bangladeshi	0	0	<5	<5	<5
Asian or Asian British - Indian	0	<5	<5	11	7
Asian or Asian British - Pakistani	<5	13	30	37	27
Black - Any Other Black Background	0	0	0	<5	0
Black or Black British - Caribbean	0	0	0	<5	0
Mixed - Any Other Mixed Background	0	0	0	0	<5
Mixed - White and Asian	0	0	0	<5	0
Mixed - White and Black African	<5	0	0	0	0
Other - Any Other Ethnic Group	0	<5	0	5	<5
Other - Chinese	0	0	0	<5	0
Other - Not Stated	11	11	26	46	34
White - Any Other White Background	7	<5	20	40	30
White - British	136	205	501	740	383
White - Irish	<5	<5	5	9	<5
Not known	0	0	<5	12	6

3. postcode district of their home addresses
	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
BB1	17	23	50	90	63
BB10	10	20	44	74	40
BB11	10	14	30	54	30
BB12	15	22	41	63	34
BB18	<5	<5	13	10	7
BB2	21	21	60	110	55
BB3	7	14	38	67	31
BB4	11	26	46	60	44
BB5	21	28	97	105	54
BB6	<5	6	14	30	15
BB7	5	14	29	62	33
BB8	6	9	19	29	24
BB9	14	16	52	75	31
OL12	0	<5	<5	5	<5
OL13	7	9	19	27	8
out of area	11	14	38	54	27

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East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
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Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital
Haslingden Road
Blackburn
BB2 3HH

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FOI 2025-113068

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