HC Deb 10 December 1992 vol 215 cc788-9W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for every health authority(a) the total number of hospital beds and (b) the number of acute hospital beds as at March 1991.

Mr. Stewart

[holding answer 8 December]: The information requested is shown in the table. The table shows information on bed complement. This is the number of beds approved by health boards. Beds in day bed units, borrowed beds and temporary beds are excluded.

NHS—bed complement; all and acute hospital beds; by health board of treatment; as at 31 March 1991
Bed complement
All specialties Acute specialties
SCOTLAND 52,738 16,538
Argyll and Clyde 4,130 1,282
Ayrshire and Arran 2,937 1,104
Borders 939 352
Dumfries and Galloway 1,407 451
Fife 3,006 806
Forth Valley 2,871 641
Grampian 5,149 1,419
Greater Glasgow 12,667 3,978
Highland 1,885 717
Lanarkshire 4,938 1,578
Lothian 7,633 2,374
Orkney 155 61
Shetland 148 51
Tayside 4,651 1,636
Western Isles 222 88