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Mr. John Patten
The latest available figures for beds, together with waiting list figures at a comparable date, are given in the table. Bed occupancy figures are based on a midnight count and do not therefore reflect the use of beds by patients who do not stay overnight. The waiting list figures do not include patients waiting to be admitted on a non-residential basis. In general, figures on waiting lists are believed to include a significant proportion of duplicated entries and patients who no longer require treatment. The amount of overstatement cannot be readily estimated but is thought to exceed 10 per cent. nationally and could be considerably more.
| District Health Authority |
Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as available but not occupied during 1982 |
Number of persons on acute* inpatient waiting lists on 31 December 1982 |
| Region—Northern RHA |
|
|
| Hartlepool |
134 |
1,937 |
| North Tees |
168 |
1,958 |
| South Tees |
505 |
10,637 |
| East Cumbria |
192 |
3,555 |
| South Cumbria |
134 |
1,139 |
| West Cumbria |
121 |
1,876 |
| Darlington |
146 |
3,121 |
| Durham |
187 |
1,676 |
| North West Durham |
148 |
985 |
| South West Durham |
114 |
711 |
| Northumberland |
208 |
1,732 |
| Gateshead |
136 |
1,489 |
| Newcastle |
574 |
11,866 |
| North Tyneside |
167 |
1,690 |
| South Tyneside |
116 |
957 |
| Sunderland |
448 |
5,568 |
| Hull |
286 |
7,418 |
| East Yorkshire |
276 |
2,006 |
| Grimsby |
180 |
2,630 |
| Scunthorpe |
155 |
5,202 |
| Northallerton |
102 |
631 |
| York |
245 |
3,002 |
| Scarborough |
77 |
2,289 |
| Harrogate |
160 |
1,362 |
| Bradford |
372 |
6,454 |
| Airedale |
168 |
1,834 |
| Calderdale |
178 |
1,239 |
| Huddersfield |
184 |
3,132 |
| Dewsbury |
91 |
1,339 |
| Leeds Western |
277 |
4,426 |
| Leeds Eastern |
321 |
6,478 |
| Wakefield |
194 |
3,168 |
| Pontefract |
152 |
2,437 |
| North Derbyshire |
193 |
3,527 |
| South Derbyshire |
416 |
6,593 |
| Leicestershire |
613 |
6,440 |
| North Lincolnshire |
283 |
4,045 |
| South Lincolnshire |
191 |
4,559 |
| Bassetlaw |
97 |
907 |
| Central |
|
|
| Nottinghamshire |
324 |
7,591 |
| Nottingham |
438 |
10,765 |
| Barnsley |
144 |
4,446 |
| Doncaster |
208 |
6,336 |
847W
| District Health Authority |
Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as available but not occupied during 1982 |
Number of persons on acute* inpatient waiting lists on 31 December 1982 |
| Rotherham |
188 |
4,366 |
| Sheffield |
580 |
14,440 |
| Region—East Anglian RHA |
|
|
| Cambridge |
186 |
7,155 |
| Peterborough |
195 |
3,704 |
| West Suffolk |
162 |
2,207 |
| East Suffolk |
268 |
3,218 |
| Norwich |
392 |
11,753 |
| Great Yarmouth and Waveney |
142 |
4,158 |
| West Norfolk and Wisbech |
190 |
1,678 |
| Huntingdon |
46 |
359 |
| Region—North West Thames RHA |
|
|
| North Bedfordshire |
121 |
2,849 |
| South Bedfordshire |
138 |
2,459 |
| North Hertfordshire |
124 |
3,151 |
| East Hertfordshire |
95 |
1,902 |
| North West Hertfordshire |
112 |
2,748 |
| South West Hertfordshire |
134 |
1,953 |
| Barnet |
271 |
3,546 |
| Harrow |
101 |
1,517 |
| Hillingdon |
313 |
6,303 |
| Hounslow and Spelthorne |
210 |
3,278 |
| Ealing |
45 |
1,282 |
| Brent |
115 |
1,883 |
| Paddington |
222 |
2,883 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham |
89 |
2,941 |
| Victoria |
176 |
2,893 |
| Region—North East Thames RHA |
|
|
| Basildon and Thurrock |
185 |
6,157 |
| Mid Essex |
161 |
3,394 |
| North East Essex |
259 |
3,279 |
| West Essex |
192 |
2,804 |
| Southend |
148 |
3,305 |
| Barking, Havering and Brentwood |
260 |
4,980 |
| Hampstead |
134 |
1,884 |
| Bloomsbury |
474 |
9,332 |
| Islington |
216 |
948 |
| City and Hackney |
221 |
5,237 |
| Newham |
130 |
2,396 |
| Tower Hamlets |
166 |
5,831 |
| Enfield |
131 |
2,841 |
| Haringey |
197 |
1,628 |
| Redbridge |
64 |
1,744 |
| Waltham Forest |
209 |
3,486 |
| Region—South East Thames |
|
|
| Brighton |
240 |
4,015 |
| Eastbourne |
148 |
2,585 |
| Hastings |
136 |
2,734 |
| South East Kent |
170 |
3,504 |
| Canterbury and Thanet |
290 |
4,302 |
| Dartford and Gravesham |
213 |
3,058 |
| Maidstone |
112 |
2,102 |
| Medway |
157 |
3,577 |
| Tunbridge Wells |
246 |
6,489 |
848W
| District Health Authority |
Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as available but not occupied during 1982 |
Number of persons on acute* inpatient waiting lists on 31 December 1982 |
| Bexley |
73 |
1,205 |
| Greenwich |
266 |
2,589 |
| Bromley |
173 |
1,886 |
| West Lambeth |
102 |
4,967 |
| Camberwell |
134 |
3,359 |
| Lewisham and North Southwark |
290 |
5,718 |
| Region—South West Thames RHA |
|
|
| North West Surrey |
184 |
2,397 |
| West Surrey and North East Hants |
132 |
3,671 |
| South West Surrey |
117 |
3,159 |
| Mid Surrey |
87 |
2,207 |
| East Surrey |
177 |
1,095 |
| Chichester |
86 |
2,781 |
| Mid Downs |
181 |
2,537 |
| Worthing |
119 |
3,760 |
| Croydon |
143 |
3,021 |
| Kingston and Esher |
90 |
3,226 |
| Richmond, |
|
|
| Twickenham and Roehampton |
85 |
2,562 |
| Wandsworth |
222 |
3,186 |
| Merton and Sutton |
206 |
3,888 |
| Region—Wessex RHA |
|
|
| East Dorset |
203 |
5,182 |
| West Dorset |
159 |
2,198 |
| Portsmouth and South East Hampshire |
340 |
6,676 |
| Southampton and South West |
|
|
| Hampshire |
376 |
9,366 |
| Winchester |
110 |
2,458 |
| Basingstoke and North Hampshire |
134 |
3,672 |
| Salisbury |
113 |
4,621 |
| Swindon |
169 |
2,769 |
| Bath |
402 |
7,619 |
| Isle of Wight |
112 |
1,318 |
| Region—Oxford RHA |
|
|
| East Berkshire |
248 |
8,600 |
| West Berkshire |
284 |
3,438 |
| Ayelsbury |
144 |
5,380 |
| Wycombe |
122 |
1,142 |
| Milton Keynes |
4 |
il |
| Kettering |
149 |
2,922 |
| Northampton |
216 |
7,112 |
| Oxfordshire |
383 |
7,537 |
| Region—South Western RHA |
|
|
| Bristol and Weston |
312 |
7,085 |
| Frenchay |
147 |
6,022 |
| Southmead |
249 |
3,648 |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |
189 |
5,105 |
| Exeter |
306 |
4,627 |
| North Devon |
110 |
1,654 |
| Plymouth |
341 |
5,541 |
| Torbay |
174 |
2,450 |
| Cheltenham |
148 |
1,766 |
| Gloucester |
214 |
5,026 |
| Somerset |
269 |
5,950 |
| Region—West Midlands RHA |
|
|
| Bromsgrove and Redditch |
145 |
1,515 |
| Herefordshire |
149 |
2,534 |
| Kidderminster and District |
48 |
1,095 |
849W
| District Health Authority |
Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as available but not occupied during 1982 |
Number of persons on acute* inpatient waiting lists on 31 December 1982 |
| Worcester and District |
174 |
2,383 |
| Shropshire |
363 |
8,512 |
| Mid Staffordshire |
121 |
2,480 |
| North Staffordshire |
340 |
9,287 |
| South East Staffordshire |
146 |
2,103 |
| Rugby |
70 |
819 |
| North Warwickshire |
98 |
1,809 |
| South Warwickshire |
185 |
3,074 |
| Central Birmingham |
248 |
7,929 |
| East Birmingham |
172 |
4,362 |
| North Birmingharn |
101 |
2,715 |
| South Birmingham |
281 |
7,067 |
| West Birmingham |
255 |
3,940 |
| Coventry |
293 |
9,252 |
| Dudley |
232 |
5,403 |
| Sandwell |
132 |
2,241 |
| Solihull |
91 |
2,359 |
| Walsall |
145 |
3,169 |
| Wolverhampton |
228 |
3,389 |
| Region—Mersey RHA |
|
|
| Chester |
193 |
3,023 |
| Crewe |
214 |
5,350 |
| Halton |
22 |
nil |
| Macclesfield |
105 |
2,227 |
| Warrington |
92 |
2,973 |
| Liverpool |
495 |
8,473 |
| St. Helens and Knowsley |
165 |
3,330 |
| North Sefton |
81 |
1,458 |
| South Sefton |
225 |
7,154 |
| Wirral |
351 |
4,577 |
| Region—North Western RHA |
|
|
| Lancaster |
125 |
1,523 |
| Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde |
133 |
3,590 |
| Preston |
188 |
4,663 |
| Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley |
176 |
3,062 |
| Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale |
288 |
3,445 |
| West Lancashire |
189 |
2,413 |
| Chorley and South Ribble |
24 |
571 |
| Bolton |
171 |
3,366 |
| Bury |
96 |
1,067 |
| North Manchester |
405 |
4,738 |
| Central Manchester |
184 |
4,673 |
| South Manchester |
406 |
8,042 |
| Oldham |
164 |
4,988 |
| Rochdale |
134 |
2,378 |
| Salford |
213 |
5,567 |
| Stockport |
227 |
4,609 |
| Tameside and Glossop |
114 |
2,704 |
| Trafford |
136 |
1,433 |
| Wigan |
208 |
5,104 |
| Region—Special health authorities and boards of governors |
| Hospital |
|
|
| The Hospitals for Sick Children |
136 |
1,468 |
| The National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases |
62 |
687 |
| Moorfields Eye Hospital |
77 |
1,467 |
850W
| District Health Authority |
Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as available but not occupied during 1982 |
Number of persons on acute* inpatient waiting lists on 31 December 1982 |
| The Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudsley Hospital |
10 |
74 |
| The National Heart and Chest Hospitals |
156 |
1,145 |
| The Royal Marsden Hospital |
76 |
321 |
| Hammersmith Hospital |
84 |
2,330 |
| Queen Charlotte's Hospital for Women |
55 |
421 |
| * All specialities except geriatrics, units for younger disabled, GP maternity, obstetrics, mental handicap, mental illness. |