§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give for each year since 1983 the total number of hospital beds for each of the following services broken down by health board:(a) general medical (b) general surgical, (c) non-psychiatric acute, (d) geriatric, (e) maternity, (f) mental illness, (g) mentally handicapped and (h) total.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe average available staffed beds in the specialty groupings requested in all NHS hospitals in each health board are set out in the table. Data relate to the year ending 30 September in each case except for 1987 which is the year ending 31 March.
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Specialty Scotland Argyll and Clyde Ayrshire and Arran Borders Dumfries and Galloway Fife Forth Valley Grampian Greater Glasgow Highland Lanarkshire Lothian Orkney Shetland Tayside Western Isles Geriatric 10,961 973 709 241 329 703 634 1,040 2,229 425 1,032 1,512 52 87 881 113 Maternity 2,388 238 187 33 65 134 126 245 494 106 200 304 11 11 218 17 Mental illness 15,820 1,430 805 288 584 1,046 857 1,570 3,549 655 1,469 2,066 — — 1,501 1 Mental handicap 5,888 290 120 34 42 475 1,066 699 1,191 233 571 631 — — 536 — Young Chronic Sick 385 39 — — — 12 — 20 193 5 34 46 9 — 27 — Total 55,338 4,312 2,951 944 1,493 3,290 3,410 5,513 12,559 2,165 5,042 8,047 131 158 5,109 216 1 Other acute specialties, including supra-area specialites and special categories. Note: Components may not sum exactly to totals due to rounding.