HC Deb 20 December 1979 vol 976 cc406-7W
Mr. Geraint Howells

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many hospital beds per 1,000 population there are in each health area in Scotland.

Mr. Fairgrieve

The information is set out in the table below:

Health Board * Number of Hospital Beds per 1,000 population
Argyll and Clyde … 10.
Ayrshire and Arran … 7.5
Borders … 10.2
Dumfries and Galloway … 12.1
Fife … 8.6
Forth Valley … 14.0
Grampian … 12.6
Greater Glasgow … 15.1
Highland … 13.4
Health Board *Number of Hospital Beds per 1,000 population
Lanarkshire … 10.6
Lothian … 12.6
Orkney … 7.1
Shetland … 7.5
Tayside … 14.6
Western Isles … 7.2
Scotland … 12.2
*Bed complement figures at 31 March in NHS hospitals, joint user hospitals institutions with which health boards have contractual arrangements.