HC Deb 06 November 1987 vol 121 cc925-6W
Mr. Wray

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many patients were hospitalised for more than seven days in Scotland for each year since 1975;

(2) how many of the patients hospitalised for more than seven days in Scotland, for each year since 1975 did so under National Health Service provisions.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

[holding answer 26 October 1987]: Detailed information including length of stay is held currently only for NHS hospitals. Corresponding information is not held for private hospitals and nursing homes. Available information relates not to patients but to discharges of patients after seperate episodes of care.

The same patient may therefore be counted more than once. The information given relates to the number of discharges of patients after a stay of more than seven days from all NHS hospitals in Scotland in each calendar year. It does not include patients who have spent more than seven days in hospital but who were not discharged within the calendar year. Thus, many long stay patients in geriatric hospitals and mental illness and mental handicap hospitals are excluded.

Number
1975 311,430
1976 318,021
1977 311,105
1978 297,543
1979 293,205
1980 283,035
1981 290,356
1982 267,699
1983 283,511
1984 283,518
19851 283,654
1 Provisional.

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