§ Mr. Turtonasked the Minister of Health if he will state the number of acute, mainly acute, partly acute, mainly long-stay, long-stay, chronic, pre-convalescent, convalescent, maternity, psychiatric (mental illness), mental illness, and psychiatric (mental subnormality) hospitals in each hospital region, specifying how many of these are general practitioner hospitals, and what is the average in-patient cost per week.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonFor information about numbers of hospitals of different types and their costs I would refer the right hon. Member to Appendix 2 to Part I of the published Hospital Costing Returns for the year ended 31st March, 1964.
Hospitals are not designated as general practitioner hospitals and information about them is not, therefore, available in the form requested. A regional
20Wteaching hospitals within the postal districts of the towns:
analysis of general practitioner beds appears below.
NUMBER OF BEDS ALLOCATED FOR GENERAL PRACTITIONER USE AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1964 Regional Hospital Board General Practitioner Maternity Other General Practitioner Beds Beds Newcastle 239 332 Leeds 186 150 Sheffield 449 492 East Anglia 130 167 North West Metropolitan 36 389 North East Metropolitan 109 408 South East Metropolitan 190 642 South West Metropolitan 204 777 Oxford 266 322 South Western 617 1,475 Wales 315 899 Birmingham 477 419 Manchester 559 254 Liverpool 96 93 Wessex 217 252 4,090 7,071