HC Deb 18 April 1995 vol 258 cc106-7W
22. Mr. Corbett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the change in the number of acute beds in(a) Birmingham and (b) the west midlands since 1979.

Mr. Sackville

The information requested is as follows:

1979 1993–94
Birmingham 4,391 2,918
West Midlands 14,668 11,305

Source:

1979, SH3 returns; 1993–94 KHO3 returns.

Over this period in the west midlands, the number of in-patient cases increased by 42 per cent, to 670,000 and day cases by 308 per cent. to 207,000.

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