§ Mr. JanmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the population served of each district health authority; and how many accident and emergency centres each district has.
§ Mr. Dorrell[pursuant to his reply, 24 May 1990, c. 341–46]: I regret that the tables published contained inaccuracies.
The corrected infromation is as follows:
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Resident population estimates, by District Health Authority, as at 30 June 1988, and numbers of NHS hospital sites having Accident &
Emergency Departments, by Health Authority, as at 31 March 1989
Health Authority Resident population (thousands) Number of hospital sites having A and E departments Northern RHA Hartlepool 88.4 1 North Tees 176.8 1 South Tees 287.9 5 East Cumbria 179.4 5 South Cumbria 172.6 2 West Cumbria 137.2 4 Darlington 124.5 1 Durham 233.9 1 North West Durham 85.9 1 South West Durham 152.5 1 Northumberland 301.4 7 Gateshead 206.2 1 Newcastle 279.6 2 North Tyneside 192.9 2 South Tyneside 155.7 2 Sunderland 296.1 2 Yorkshire RHA Hull 297.6 3 East Yorkshire 198.8 3 Grimsby 157.5 1 Scunthorpe 196.6 3 Northallerton 117.2 3 York 264.7 3 Scarborough 145.8 3 Harrogate 135.8 2 796W
Health Authority Resident population (thousands) Number of hospital sites having A and E departments Bradford 337.0 2 Airedale 176.7 2 Calderdale 195.9 1 Huddersfield 211.5 1 Dewsbury 163.8 1 Leeds Western 365.3 2 Leeds Eastern 344.3 2 Wakefield 145.2 1 Pontefract 166.4 2 Trent RHA North Derbyshire 363.2 4 Southern Derbyshire 530.8 5 Leicestershire 885.5 8 North Lincolnshire 273.2 5 South Lincolnshire 309.4 6 Bassetlaw 104.8 1 Central Nottinghamshire 289.2 2 Nottingham 613.7 1 Barnsley 220.9 1 Doncaster 291.6 2 Rotherham 251.8 1 Sheffield 528.3 3 East Anglian RHA Cambridge 275.6 1 Peterborough 208.5 3 West Suffolk 228.1 2 East Suffolk 322.6 3 Norwich 472.4 5 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 200.1 4 West Norfolk and Wisbech 191.4 3 Huntingdon 135.7 1 North West Thames RHA North Bedfordshire 251.6 1 South Bedfordshire 279.1 1 North Hertfordshire 186.0 2 East Hertfordshire 294.6 1 North West Hertfordshire 261.4 2 South West Hertfordshire 243.9 1 Barnet 301.4 3 Harrow 197.1 1 Hillingdon 231.7 2 Hounslow and Spelthorne 276.6 3 Ealing 297.3 1 Riverside 276.0 4 Parkside 373.7 4 North East Thames RHA Basildon and Thurrock 282.0 2 Mid Essex 290.8 1 North East Essex 311.6 3 West Essex 249.9 5 Southend 325.3 1 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 453.1 2 Hampstead 108.4 1 Bloomsbury 126.7 1 Islington 169.2 1 City and Hackney 193.3 2 Newham 207.0 1 Tower Hamlets 161.8 2 Enfield 260.9 1 Haringey 192.3 1 Redbridge 230.8 1 Waltham Forest 213.3 1 South East Thames RHA Brighton 308.2 4 Eastbourne 235.2 2 Hastings 169.3 3 South East Kent 268.4 3 Canterbury and Thanet 309.3 5 797W
Health Authority Resident population (thousands) Number of hospital sites having A and E departments Dartford and Gravesham 217.2 2 Maidstone 199.3 2 Medway 330.2 2 Tunbridge Wells 196.0 6 Bexley 220.4 1 Greenwich 214.5 2 Bromley 298.2 2 West Lambeth 158.6 1 Camberwell 210.5 1 Lewisham and North Southwark 316.3 3 South West Thames RHA North West Surrey 206.9 3 West Surrey and North East Hants 277.6 1 South West Surrey 181.1 4 Mid Surrey 165.2 2 East Surrey 182.6 4 Chichester 182.6 na Mid Downs 276.8 3 Worthing 244.0 2 Croydon 317.2 2 Kingston and Esher 177.2 2 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 229.7 1 Wandsworth 188.2 2 Merton and Sutton 332.3 4 Wessex RHA East Dorset 451.7 5 West Dorset 203.9 6 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 527.9 6 Southampton and South West Hampshire 419.7 2 Winchester 212.3 2 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 220.9 1 Salisbury 121.0 2 Swindon 234.2 2 Bath 407.0 12 Isle of Wight 129.8 1 Oxford RHA East Berkshire 362.1 2 West Berkshire 454.2 3 Aylesbury Vale 145.4 2 Wycombe 268.2 3 Milton Keynes 177.6 1 Kettering 258.3 1 Northampton 312.0 1 Oxfordshire 545.9 12 South Western RHA Bristol and Weston 367.7 4 Frenchay 221.8 2 Southmead 232.3 2 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 460.6 9 Exeter 308.6 10 North Devon 135.6 7 Plymouth 334.3 8 Torbay 242.6 11 Cheltenham 212.4 7 Gloucester 315.1 6 Somerset 405.0 7 West Midlands RHA Bromsgrove and Redditch 167.1 2 Herefordshire 157.3 6 Kidderminster and District 102.6 2 Worcester and District 243.9 5 Shropshire 400.8 14 Mid Staffordshire 313.8 2 North Staffordshire 461.5 3
Health Authority Resident population (thousands) Number of hospital sites having A and E departments South East Staffordshire 257.6 4 Rugby 86.3 1 North Warwickshire 175.1 1 South Warwickshire 223.2 3 Central Birmingham 180.2 2 East Birmingham 196.9 1 North Birmingham 164.0 1 South Birmingham 246.1 2 West Birmingham 206.6 2 Coventry 306.2 2 Dudley 304.3 1 Sandwell 296.3 1 Solihull 204.9 1 Walsall 262.3 1 Wolverhampton 249.4 2 Mersey RHA Chester 176.7 1 Crewe 248.5 2 Halton 143.6 1 Macclesfield 179.9 4 Warrington 187.7 1 Liverpool 469.6 7 St. Helens and Knowsley 346.0 2 Southport and Formby 120.1 1 South Sefton 177.5 2 Wirral 354.3 2 North Western RHA Lancaster 131.1 1 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 320.0 4 Preston 128.1 1 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 264.8 2 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 228.3 1 West Lancashire 105.4 1 Chorley and South Ribble 196.8 1 Bolton 263.6 2 Bury 175.0 2 North Manchester 139.7 2 Central Manchester 122.4 4 South Manchester 183.8 2 Oldham 219.5 1 Rochdale 214.2 1 Salford 235.6 1 Stockport 290.9 1 Tameside and Glossop 247.0 1 Trafford 215.8 2 Wigan 307.6 2 Special Health Authorities The Hospitals for Sick Children — 1 Moorfields Eye Hospital — 1 Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals — 1 Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's — 1 The Eastman Dental Hospital — 1 Sources: Population estimates, Office of Population, Censuses & Surveys.
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