§ Mr. Dormandasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the names of those maternity hospitals and maternity wings which have been closed in each of the years from 1979 to 1983, together with the average number of deliveries in each of them for the previous three years.
§ Mr. John Patten[pursuant to his reply, 21 June 1984, c. 237]: Listed in the table are all hospitals at which centrally-held records show that maternity beds were approved for closure. Closure dates are not generally available centrally, and the information is given by year of approval for closure.
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Average number of births Hospital Area health authority/District health authority 93 Wallingford Community Oxfordshire 316 Willington Quay Maternity North Tyneside 1,943 Sharoe Green Preston 893 St. Mary's Harborough Magna Warwickshire — March Maternity Home Cambridge 1982 200 Lucy Baldwin Maternity Home Hereford and Worcester 1,388 City of London Maternity Camden and Islington — New Sussex East Sussex 651 Bowthorpe King's Lynn 180 Harpenden Memorial North West Hertfordshire — Aspland Tameside and Glossop 69 St. Leonard's Sudbury West Suffolk 1983 165 Congleton War Memorial Macclesfield 228 Ashgate Maternity Home North Derbyshire 250 Clacton Maternity North East Essex 4,238 Mill Road Maternity Cambridge 3,450 Leeds Western Maternity Leeds Western 74 Wendover Maternity Frenchay 923 Middlesbrough General South Tees 98 Longacre Maternity Home Norwich 147 Carlton Lodge Maternity Home Harrogate 365 Primrose Lane Maternity Unit Huntingdon 156 Chase, Cannock Mid Staffordshire 332 Mary Stevens Maternity Home Dudley 486 Rosemary Edman Maternity Dudley Notes:
1. Figures for births are the average number per year over the three years prior to approval for closure.
2. At certain hospitals in the list beds had been temporarily closed for some time before approval for permanent closure was given.
3. The list includes hospitals where a reduction, but not a complete closure of all maternity beds, was approved.
4. Other hospitals approved for closure but not listed in the table may have contained maternity beds not separately identified in centrally-held records.