HC Deb 13 May 1987 vol 116 cc232-4W
Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the total number of beds in each area health authority in 1979.

Mrs. Currie

The information requested is given in the table.

Average daily number of available beds by area health authority, England, 1979
Area Health Authority Number
Northern RHA
Cleveland 3,830.7
Cumbria 3,575.6
Durham 5,139.8
Northumberland 3,995.8
Gateshead 1,368.2
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3,479.2
North Tyneside 719.0
South Tyneside 770.7
Sunderland 2,426.3
Yorkshire RHA
Humberside 6,119.0
North Yorkshire 5,105.8
Bradford 4,249.6
Calderdale 1,370.2
Kirklees 3,401.8
Leeds 6,238.8
Wakefield 3,460.4
Trent RHA
Derbyshire 5,930.2
Leicestershire 5,140.2
Lincolnshire 4,708.5
Nottinghamshire 6,597.9
Barnsley 962.1
Doncaster 1,808.4
Rotherham 1,331.1
Sheffield 5,233.3
East Anglian RHA
Cambridgeshire 3,522.4
Norfolk 5,609.9
Suffolk 3,961.3
North West Thames RHA
Bedfordshire 2,885.8
Hertfordshire 7,350.2
Barnet 2,840.7
Brent/Harrow 3,224.0
Ealing/Hammersmith/Hounslow 4,397.0
Hillingdon 1,627.5
Kensington and Chelsea/Westminster 5,579.3
North East Thames RHA
Essex 9,749.0
Barking/Havering 3,283.2
Camden/Islington 4,483.3
City and East London 4,492.2
Enfield/Haringey 2,469.6
Redbridge/Waltham Forest 4,965.5
South East Thames RHA
East Sussex 4,674.9
Kent 11,725.2
Green wich/Bexley 3,430.1
Bromley 2,590.8
Lambeth/Southwark/Lewisham 5,986.9
South West Thames RHA
Surrey 10,891.5
West Sussex 3,763.7
Croydon 3,191.8
Kingston/Richmond 2,104.7
Merton/Sutton/Wandsworth 6,290.3
Wessex RHA
Dorset 3,830.2
Hampshire 8,724.5
Wiltshire 5,520.5
Isle of Wight 946.0

Area Health Authority Number
Oxford RHA
Berkshire 4,760.7
Buckinghamshire 2,649.8
Northamptonshire 2,965.5
Oxfordshire 3,288.4
South Western RHA
Avon 7,419.6
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 2,670.2
Devon 7,715.1
Gloucestershire 3,173.7
Somerset 3,477.7
West Midlands RHA
Hereford and Worcester 5,397.6
Salop 2,602.5
Staffordshire 6,377.3
Warwickshire 3,605.6
Birmingham 9,960.7
Coventry 1,871.3
Dudley 1,491.8
Sandwell 747.2
Solihull 904.8
Walsall 1,761.9
Wolverhampton 1,542.6
Mersey RHA
Cheshire 9,356.0
Liverpool 5,573.7
St. Helens with Knowsley 1,183.6
Sefton 3,078.8
Wirral 2,789.4
North Western RHA
Lancashire 13,193.5
Bolton 1,360.8
Bury 716.2
Manchester 5,585.0
Oldham 1,044.9
Rochdale 953.1
Salford 3,097.6
Stockport 1,677.1
Tameside 868.9
Trafford 835.9
Wigan 1,478.5
Special Health Authorities
The Hospital for sick children 517.4
National Hospital for Nervous Diseases 356.5
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital 116.0
Moorfields Eye Hospital 207.7
Maudsley Hospital 471.9
St. Johns Hospital for Diseases of the skin 54.7
National Heart and Chest Hospitals 602.9
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals 330.6
St. Peter's Hospital Group 122.7
Royal Marsden Hospital 360.7
Queen Charlotte's Hospital for Women 277.5
Eastman Dental 0.0

Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give (a) the number of acute beds and (b) the total number of beds in hospitals in (i) inner London and (ii) Greater London in both 1979 and in the latest year for which the figures are available.

Mrs. Currie

I shall let the hon. Member have a reply as soon as possible.