HC Deb 16 July 1992 vol 211 cc904-5W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the specialist mental illness hospitals planned for closure by 1997, by district health authority concerned, together with the total number of beds currently in each and the number of beds currently occupied by patients.

Mr. Yeo

It is planned that the following mental illness hospitals should close by 1997:

Hospital District health authority Number of beds
St. Mary's Morpeth Gateshead 389
Clifton York 97
De La Pole East Yorkshire 390
Scalbor Park Airedale 140
Highroyds Leeds 36
Stanley Royd Wakefield 359
Pastures South Derbyshire 326
Carlton Hayes Leicestershire 394
Mapperley Nottingham 259
Middlewood Sheffield 298
Whittingham Preston 400
Barnsley Hall Bromsgrove and Redditch 42
St. Mary's Hereford 30
St. Matthews South East Staffs 180
Central South Warwicks 215
Ruberry Hill South Birmingham 200
Hollymoor Solihull 100
St. Crispin's Northants 294
Littlemoor Oxfordshire 270
Old Manor Salisbury 216
Coney Hill Gloucester 304
Tone Vale Somerset 355
St. Lawrence Cornwall 373
Horton Riverside 620
Friern Hampslead 350
Hellingly Eastbourne 119
St. Augustine's Canterbury and Thanet 282

Hospital District health authority Number of beds
Tooting Bee West Lambeth 600
Maidstone (Psychiatric wing) Maidstone 390

The number of beds in each hospital currently occupied by patients is not held centrally.