§ Ms Rachel SquireTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many beds are provided for people with dementia by each health board in Scotland and expressed as a percentage of the elderly population.
§ Mr. StewartThe number of patients in psychogeriatric beds in hospital with a diagnosis of dementia as at 31 March 1993, the latest date for which complete information is available is shown in the following table.
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As at 31 March 1993 Patients in hospital with a diagnosis of dementia Percentage of population 65+ SCOTLAND 5,364 0.7 Argyll and Clyde 393 0.6 Ayrshire and Arran 298 0.5 Borders 157 0.8 Dumfries and Galloway 188 0.7 Fife 430 0.8 Forth Valley 223 0.6 Grampian 658 0.9 Greater Glasgow 1,003 0.7 Highland 217 0.7 Lanarkshire 417 0.6 Lothian 716 0.6 Orknéy — — Shetland — — Tayside 599 0.9 Western Isles 65 1.2 These figures exclude those in geriatric units with diagnosis of dementia for whom separate information is not centrally held.
§ Ms Rachel SquireTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish targets for the reduction of NHS continuing care provision for elderly people and people with dementia for each health board by(a) 1996 and (b) 2001; and if he will explain the criteria on which these targets are based.
§ Mr. StewartThere are no set targets for the reduction of NHS continuing care provision. It is for individual health boards to determine future in-patient bed numbers, based on assessment of patients who are likely to require continuing specialist medical and nursing supervision.
The scale and pace of any patient transfer programme is subject to local negotiation and agreement between the health and local authorities and founded on the basis of individual patient assessment.