HC Deb 20 February 1995 vol 255 cc62-3W
Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide the figures of(a) the number of surgical beds, (b) the number of intensive care beds and (c) the number and location of surgical beds without common-site access to an intensive care unit for (i) Renfrewshire and (ii) Strathclyde as a whole.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The information requested is shown in the tables below.

National Health Service hospitals in Scotland Table 1: Average available staffed surgical and intensive care beds. Renfrewshire and Strathclyde; year ending 30 September 1994
Surgical3 4Intensive
Renfrewshire1 233 22
Strathclyde2 3,856 337
1Comprises Royal Alexandra hospital, the only hospital in Renfrewshire with surgical beds, also has an intensive care unit.
2 Comprises Argyll and Clyde, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire and Greater Glasgow health board areas.
3Comprises general surgery, orthopaedics, ENT, ophthalmology, urology, orthodontics and paediatric dentistry, oral surgery and oral medicine, restorative dentistry, surgical paediatrics, gynaecology, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, plastic surgery and spinal paralysis specialties.
4Comprises special care baby unit and intensive therapy unit specialties.

Table 2: Hospitals in Strathclyde with surgical beds and no intensive care beds; year ending 30 September 1994
Number of surgical beds
All hospitals 330
Rothesay Victoria hospital 8
Dunnon and District General hospital 9
West Highland hospital, Oban 33
Canniesburn hospital, Glasgow 68
Stonehouse hospital, East Kilbride 87
Ballochmyle Hospital, Mauchline 125