§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many hospitals have been closed since 1979; if he will list them; how many beds have been closed in them in each case; how many beds have been closed each year since 1979 in wards within hospitals that still remained open; and if he will list the location in each case.
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§ Mr. NewtonThe information we keep centrally records approvals for partial and complete hospital closures. It does not include temporary closures, neither does it give the date on which closures were implemented.
For information on hospitals approved for complete closure, I refer the hon. Member to the information provided by my predecessors in replies given to the hon. Member on 20 May 1985, columns 317–329 and 3 March 1986, column 62, to to the hon. Member for
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Partial hospital closure 1979-December 1984 District Hospital Number of beds Date approved Northern Cleveland North Tees District General 8 July 1981 South Tees Middlesbrough General 26 September 1984 Poole 60 March 1984 Yorkshire Harrogate Scotton Banks 26 October 1984 Leeds Western Leeds General Infirmary 70 February 1983 Wakefield Snapethorpe 24 November 1981 Stanley Royd 60 November 1981 Pinderfields General 22 March 1984 Humberside Witherinsea 24 June 1981 Trent Central Nottinghamshire Forest 16 February 1984 Victoria 106 February 1984 Leicestershire Ellen Towle 20 June 1983 Leicestershire Royal Infirmary 46 June 1983 Groby Road 87 June 1983 Lincolnshire Skegness and District 9 May 1981 North Derbyshire Walton 19 April 1983 Sheffield Middlewood 73 June 1980 East Anglia Berkshire Canadian Red Cross Memorial 26 February 1981 Oxfordshire Longworth 10 January 1981 West Norfolk and Wisbech Bowthorpe 20 May 1982 West Suffolk St. Leonards, Sudbury 12 November 1982 North West Thames Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow West Middlesex 7 October 1980 West Middlesex 60 October 1981 Brent and Harrow Shenley 20 February 1982 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Athlone House 45 November 1980 St. Marys, Harrow Road 147 September 1981 Hammersmith and Fulham Charing Cross 30 August 1984 West London 17 June 1984 Hounslow and Spelthorne West Middlesex 34 September 1984 Ashford 24 September 1984 East Hertfordshire Hertford County 24 December 1984 North Bedfordshire Clapham 20 January 1984 Park 38 December 1983 North West Hertfordshire Harpenden Memorial 8 October 1982 Victoria St. Stephens 27 September 1984 Westminster 8 September 1984 Banstead 40 December 1983 Banstead 48 March 1984 North East Thames Enfield Highlands 23 July 1984 Highlands 17 October 1982 Essex Runwell 13 April 1981 Waltham Forest Whipps Cross 12 August 1983 South East Thames Greenwich and Bexley Queen Marys 20 October 1981 Maidstone Preston Hall 31 January 1983 West Lambeth South Western 39 December 1982 Wessex Hampshire King Georges 10 January 1981 Salisbury Westminster Memorial 8 July 1984 Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Short) on 20 February 1986, columns 309–310, and to the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) today.
The information on hospitals approved for partial closure is as follows up to December 1984. For 1985 and 1986 (to August) I refer the hon. Member to the information given in the reply to the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras today.
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District Hospital Number of beds Date approved Wiltshire Royal United 16 September 1981 Royal United 40 April 1981 St. Martins 215 April 1981 South Western Gloucester Lydney and District 7 February 1984 Nottinghamshire Nottingham Womens 132 May 1981 Highbury 13 May 1981 Newstead 58 March 1980 West Midlands Dudley The Guest 59 December 1981 Burton Road 76 December 1983 Wordsley 12 December 1983 The Corbett 37 December 1983 East Birmingham Yardley Green Unit 30 October 1983 Hereford and Worcestershire Kidderminster General 44 May 1982 North Birmingham Highcroft 80 May 1984 Mid-Staffordshire Chase Hospital, Cannock 10 November 1983 South Warwickshire Warenford General 33 August 1984 Stratford General 51 August 1984 Walsall St. Margarets 38 February 1983 Mersey Cheshire Cranford Lodge 10 August 1980 Liverpool Royal Liverpool Childrens 39 November 1982 Newsham 10 July 1984 St. Pauls (Eye) 11 July 1984 Alderhey Childrens 24 July 1984 Macclesfield Congleton War Memorial 11 February 1983 Collar House Top floor wards December 1981 Wirral Clatterbridge 247 January 1981 North Western Preston Preston Infirmary n/a March 1981 Notes:
1. Temporary closures are not included.
2. Dates on which closures were implemented are not shown.
3. No partial closures are recorded for 1979.