HC Deb 27 October 1970 vol 805 cc33-4W
71. Dame Irene Ward

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will state in each regional hospital board area

Whole-time equivalents per 50 beds Number of beds
Hospital Group Consultants Other hospital doctors General Private (Section 5)
England:
Newcastle—United Newcastle Hospitals 3.6 6.2 894 26
Leeds—United Leeds Hospitals 2.5 5.0 1,058 70
Sheffield—United Sheffield Hospitals 2.4 5.6 1,448 44
East Anglian—United Cambridge Hospitals 2.5 5.4 847 20
Oxford—United Oxford Hospitals 2.7 6.0 1,361 27
South Western—United Bristol Hospitals 2.6 7.2 1,012 13
Birmingham—United Birmingham Hospitals 2.9 4.4 1,696 106
Manchester—United Manchester Hospitals 2.5 7.2 1,240 89
Liverpool—United Liverpool Hospitals 1.7 4.5 1,562 42
North-West Metropolitan Region 2.5 6.0 8,669 470
The Royal Free Hospital 2.1 6.1 1,063 36
University College Hospital 2.0 5.1 1,227 120
The Middlesex Hospital 2.3 6.0 1,015 72
Charing Cross Hospital 2.6 6.1 969 15
St. Mary's Hospital 2.2 5.2 1,329 81
The Hammersmith and St. Mark's Hospital 4.2 9.4 791 27
The Hospital for Sick Children 2.4 4.3 713 31
The National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases 4.3 7.6 307 14
The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital 3.8 7.7 188 14
Moorfields Eye Hospital 1.8 7.6 345 34
St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin 3.9 10.5 50 2
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital 1.5 2.9 411 10
The National Heart Hospital 4.9 12.0 95 1
St. Peter's, St. Paul's and St. Philip's and the Shaftesbury Hospitals 3.1 5.5 160 13
The Eastman Dental Hospital 29.2 8.3 6
North-East Metropolitan Region 2.2 6.1 2,379 50
The Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew 2.9 6.6 818
The London Hospital 1.9 5.9 1,561 50
South-East Metropolitan Region 2.0 5.1 3,764 160
Guy's Hospital 2.0 5.3 1,532 97
King's College Hospital 1.6 4.1 1,728 53
The Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital 3.1 8.2 504 10
South-West Metropolitan Region 2.2 5.9 4,832 205
St. George's Hospital 2.7 7.6 903 15
Westminster Hospital 2.3 6.3 1,137 60
St. Thomas's Hospital 2.0 5.6 1,548 42
The Hospitals for Diseases of the Chest 1.6 4.5 627 39
The Royal Marsden Hospital 3.3 5.9 304 19
Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospitals 2.0 3.8 313 30
Wales:
The Cardiff and District University Hospitals 2.7 7.3 1,044

Notes:

Honorary staff are included.

The numbers of beds are as at 31st December, 1969.

The figures relate to all the hospitals in the groups named.

the number of consultants and hospital medical officers allocated to 50 beds in each teaching hospital, stating the name and place of each hospital and the total number of beds covering public and private wards.

Mr. Alison

Individual consultants are not necessarily allocated to specified numbers of beds. Many doctors have part-time contracts with two or more hospital authorities. The following table shows the numbers of the whole-time equivalents per 50 beds at 30th September, 1969.