HC Deb 17 June 1975 vol 893 cc426-7W
Mrs. Winifred Ewing

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will indicate under regional headings where patients on waiting lists for geriatric beds in Scotland are situated; and if he will give the figures for 1974.

Mr. William Ross

The numbers of persons on the waiting lists for geriatric beds in the various health board areas at 31st December 1974 were as follows:

Argyll and Clyde … 46
Ayrshire and Arran … 115
Borders … 44
Dumfries and Galloway … 50
Fife … 116
Forth Valley … 110
Greater Glasgow … 279
Grampian … 196
Highland … 23
Lanarkshire … 85
Lothan … 461
Orkney … —
Shetland … 23
Tayside … 86
Western Isles … 38