Maternity Services (Hansard, 2 July 1991)

§ Mr. Dorrell

The available information is given in the following table. It should be noted that some health authorities provide special care facilities for neonates within maternity units. In these cases the cots are not counted separately and are therefore not included in the table.

111W

	Total maternity beds	Special care baby cots not in maternity wards
Regional/District Health Authority	Live births (thousands)	Average daily number	Number per 1,000 births	Average daily number	Number per 1,000 births
East Cumbria	2.09	58	27.8	15	7.2
South Cumbria	1.89	59	31.2	10	5.2
West Cumbria	1.65	51	30.9	10	6.1
Darlington	1.41	41	29.1	13	9.6
Durham	1.74	52	29.9	10	5.7
North West Durham	1.00	30	30.1	8	8.0
South West Durham	1.92	62	32.3	10	5.2
Northumberland	3.11	91	29.3	18	5.8
Gateshead	2.01	60	29.8	14	7.0
Newcastle	5.25	125	23.8	45	8.5
North Tyneside	1.93	57	29.5	15	7.8
South Tyneside	1.99	54	27.1	14	7.0
Sunderland	4.31	102	23.7	26	6.0
Yorkshire RHA	49.61	1,252	25.2	280	5.6
Hull	4.07	76	18.7	24	5.9
East Yorkshire	2.40	63	26.3	10	4.2
Grimsby	3.05	70	22.9	18	5.9
Scunthorpe	1.91	48	25.1	10	5.2
Northallerton	1.31	36	27.5	10	7.7
York	3.23	82	25.4	10	3.1
Scarborough	1.83	45	24.6	10	5.6
Harrogate	1.70	43	25.3	13	7.7
Bradford	5.95	176	29.6	32	5.4
Airedale	2.18	65	29.8	14	6.4
Calderdale	2.47	78	31.6	18	7.3
Huddersfield	2.76	62	22.5	18	6.5
Dewsbury	2.59	60	23.1	18	6.9
Leeds Western	4.62	112	24.2	16	3.5
Leeds Eastern	5.04	119	23.6	30	6.0
Wakefield	2.08	58	27.9	14	6.7
Pontefract	2.43	60	24.7	15	6.2
Trent RHA	57.69	1,344	23.3	302	5.2
North Derbyshire	2.83	86	30.4	16	5.7
Southern Derbyshire	5.07	94	18.5	24	4.7
Leicestershire	10.62	250	23.5	41	3.9
North Lincolnshire	2.83	62	21.9	15	5.3
South Lincolnshire	3.20	83	26.0	23	7.2
Bassetlaw	1.10	30	27.2	8	7.3
Central Nottinghamshire	3.44	86	25.0	23	6.7
Nottingham	10.87	251	23.1	45	4.1
Barnsley	2.56	52	20.3	13	5.1
Doncaster	4.44	101	22.7	24	5.4
Rotherham	3.18	67	21.1	15	4.7
Sheffield	7.56	182	24.1	55	7.3
East Anglian RHA	26.40	613	23.2	132	5.0
Cambridge	4.16	94	22.6	24	5.8
Peterborough	3.44	92	26.8	18	5.2
West Suffolk	3.02	87	28.8	12	4.0
East Suffolk	3.83	95	24.8	20	5.2
Norwich	5.10	91	17.9	22	4.3
Great Yarmouth and Waveney	2.31	54	23.4	16	6.9
West Norfolk and Wisbech	2.28	59	25.9	12	5.3
Huntingdon	2.27	40	17.6	8	3.6
North West Thames RHA	40.07	846	21.1	249	6.2
North Bedfordshire	2.34	45	19.2	14	6.0
South Bedfordshire	4.54	93	20.5	26	5.7
North Hertfordshire	3.10	66	21.3	13	4.2
East Hertfordshire	2.36	53	22.4	14	6.0
North West Hertfordshire	2.32	42	18.1	12	5.2
South West Hertfordshire	3.15	48	15.2	20	6.4
Barnet	3.07	73	23.8	26	8.5
Harrow	3.13	75	24.0	24	7.7
Hillingdon	3.08	51	16.6	22	7.1
Hounslow and Spelthorne	4.04	92	22.8	23	5.7
Ealing	2.14	55	25.7	10	4.7
Riverside	2.04	54	26.4	15	7.3
Parkside	4.75	98	20.6	30	6.3
North East Thames RHA	57.13	1,241	21.7	291	5.1
Basildon and Thurrock	4.47	116	26.0	21	4.7
Mid Essex	3.85	75	19.5	21	5.6

112W 113W

	Total maternity beds	Special care baby cots not in maternity wards
Regional/District Health Authority	Live births (thousands)	Average daily number	Number per 1,000 births	Average daily number	Number per 1,000 births
North East Essex	3.78	75	19.8	18	4.8
West Essex	3.03	76	25.1	16	5.3
Southend	3.90	85	21.8	16	4.1
Barking, Havering and Brentwood	4.86	107	22.0	27	5.5
Hampstead	2.34	64	27.4	18	7.7
Bloomsbury	3.28	78	23.8	23	7.0
Islington	2.76	70	25.4	20	7.3
City and Hackney	3.76	75	19.9	21	5.6
Newham	3.96	68	17.2	18	4.6
Tower Hamlets	3.38	77	22.8	12	3.6
Enfield	3.51	74	21.1	10	2.8
Haringey	2.86	69	24.2	18	6.3
Redbridge	3.20	72	22.5	18	5.6
Waltham Forest	4.20	61	14.5	14	3.3
South East Thames RHA	50.23	1,070	21.3	278	5.5
Brighton	3.69	49	13.3	24	6.5
Eastbourne	1.75	52	29.8	12	6.9
Hastings	1.78	35	19.7	12	6.7
South East Kent	3.38	79	23.4	19	5.6
Canterbury and Thanet	3.74	94	25.1	22	5.9
Dartford and Gravesham	3.21	77	24.0	14	4.4
Maidstone	2.51	47	18.7	10	4.0
Medway	4.61	79	17.1	20	4.3
Tunbridge Wells	2.84	60	21.1	17	6.0
Bexley	3.54	81	22.9	14	4.0
Greenwich	3.37	69	20.5	20	5.9
Bromley	3.50	78	22.3	15	4.3
West Lambeth	3.43	89	25.9	20	5.8
Camberwell	4.04	88	21.8	21	5.2
Lewisham and North Southwark	4.86	92	18.9	38	7.8
South West Thames RHA	34.78	705	20.3	189	5.4
North West Surrey	2.83	75	26.5	15	5.5
West Surrey and North East Hampshire	2.36	54	22.9	12	5.1
South West Surrey	2.13	44	20.6	14	6.6
Mid Surrey	1.90	50	26.3	14	7.4
East Surrey	2.32	39	16.8	11	4.7
Chichester	2.11	43	20.4	10	4.7
Mid Downs	3.83	59	15.4	19	5.0
Worthing	2.47	37	15.0	9	3.6
Croydon	4.19	64	15.3	20	4.8
Kingston and Esher	2.38	63	26.4	13	5.4
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton	1.57	31	19.8	8	5.1
Wandsworth	3.35	75	22.4	19	5.7
Merton and Sutton	3.34	69	20.7	25	7.5
Wessex RHA	37.09	1,032	27.8	183	4.9
East Dorset	4.65	206	44.3	28	6.0
West Dorset	1.96	56	28.5	15	7.5
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	6.92	196	28.3	25	3.6
Southampton and South West Hampshire	5.94	141	23.7	22	3.7
Winchester	2.73	57	20.9	16	5.9
Basingstoke and North Hampshire	2.54	46	18.1	14	5.5
Salisbury	2.16	55	25.4	14	6.5
Swindon	3.72	95	25.5	19	5.1
Bath	5.14	145	28.2	21	4.1
Isle of Wight	1.32	36	27.2	9	6.8
Oxford RHA	34.18	691	20.2	183	5.3
East Berkshire	4.92	106	21.6	27	5.5
West Berkshire	5.41	96	17.7	28	5.2
Aylesbury Vale	2.12	49	23.2	13	6.1
Wycombe	3.13	54	17.3	16	5.2
Milton Keynes	3.14	59	18.8	21	6.7
Kettering	3.41	54	15.8	16	4.7
Northampton	42.1	66	15.7	27	6.4
Oxfordshire	7.84	207	26.4	35	4.4
South Western RHA	40.25	902	22.4	168	4.2

114W 115W

	Total maternity beds	Special care baby cots not in maternity wards
Regional/District Health Authority	Live births (thousands)	Average daily number	Number per 1,000 births	Average daily number	Number per 1,000 births
Bristol and Weston	5.55	121	21.8	32	5.8
Southmead	5.88	106	18.0	30	5.1
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	4.33	109	25.2	20	4.6
Exeter	3.71	80	21.6	27	7.3
North Devon	1.71	39	22.8	2	1.2
Plymouth	5.45	121	22.2	24	4.4
Torbay	2.40	57	23.8	1	0.4
Cheltenham	2.42	55	22.7	12	5.0
Gloucester	3.93	88	22.4	20	5.1
Somerset	4.87	127	26.1	0	0.0
West Midlands RHA	74.35	1,626	21.9	387	5.2
Bromsgrove and Redditch	2.88	50	17.4	12	4.2
Herefordshire	1.95	35	17.9	12	6.1
Kidderminster and District	0.35	24	68.8	0	0.0
Worcester and District	2.79	63	22.6	12	4.3
Shropshire	5.33	137	25.7	22	4.1
Mid Staffordshire	2.57	60	23.3	12	4.7
North Staffordshire	6.71	165	24.6	30	4.5
South East Staffordshire	3.18	55	17.3	15	4.7
Rugby	1.08	24	22.2	8	7.4
North Warwickshire	2.94	71	24.1	20	6.8
South Warwickshire	2.16	53	24.6	15	6.9
Central Birmingham	4.62	109	23.6	30	6.5
North Birmingham	3.61	88	24.4	22	6.1
South Birmingham	2.64	54	20.5	14	5.1
West Birmingham	4.20	76	18.1	23	5.5
Coventry	4.93	119	24.1	29	5.9
Dudley	4.33	92	21.3	18	4.2
Sandwell	3.19	64	20.1	14	4.4
Solihull	6.59	109	16.6	38	5.8
Walsall	3.39	66	19.5	21	6.1
Wolverhampton	4.93	111	22.5	20	4.1
Mersey RHA	32.18	711	22.1	172	5.3
Chester	4.14	89	21.5	20	4.8
Crewe	2.92	53	18.1	15	5.1
Macclesfield	1.36	24	17.7	10	7.4
Warrington	3.11	60	19.3	15	4.8
Liverpool	7.14	164	23.0	37	5.2
St Helens and Knowsley	3.60	99	27.5	20	5.6
Southport and Formby	1.29	35	27.1	11	8.5
South Sefton	4.09	84	20.5	20	4.9
Wirral	4.52	102	22.6	24	5.3
North Western RHA	58.04	1,454	25.1	334	5.8
Lancaster	1.91	48	25.1	16	8.4
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde	3.54	93	26.3	18	5.1
Preston	4.55	89	19.6	20	4.4
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley	3.82	115	30.1	20	5.2
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale	2.97	65	21.9	17	5.7
West Lancashire	1.32	34	25.7	9	6.8
Chorley and South Ribble	0.24	25	105.9	0	0.0
Bolton	4.28	104	24.3	21	4.9
Bury	2.50	68	27.2	16	6.4
North Manchester	2.64	60	22.7	18	6.8
Central Manchester	3.99	114	28.6	41	10.3
South Manchester	4.78	119	24.9	28	5.9
Oldham	3.25	85	26.2	16	5.0
Rochdale	2.26	52	23.0	15	6.6
Salford	3.67	79	21.5	18	4.9
Stockport	4.13	94	22.7	20	4.9
Tameside and Glossop	3.21	82	25.5	19	5.9
Trafford	1.17	38	32.4	8	6.8
Wigan	3.81	88	23.1	14	3.7