§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what recent representations he has received from Scottish health boards concerning collective arrangements for the admission of patients to intensive care units; [16316]
(2) what arrangements exist within the NHS in Scotland for the admission of seriously sick patients to intensive care units; [16317]
(3) if he will list the number of intensive care beds available for the treatment of patients for each health board area in Scotland for each financial year since 1979. [16328]
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 27 March 1995]: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has not received any representations from health boards concerning collective arrangements for the admission of patients to intensive care units. Arrangements for the admission of seriously sick patients to intensive care units are a matter for the relevant trusts and health boards informed by clinical decisions about individual patients.
Information on the average available staffed intensive care beds is shown in the following table.
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Intensive Therapy Unit 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Borders — — 2 2 2 2 2 2 Dumfries and Galloway 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 16 Fife — — — — — — — 5 Forth Valley 4 4 4 9 9 9 9 9 Grampian 11 11 10 10 10 10 11 10 Greater Glasgow 80 75 76 78 77 77 77 75 Highland 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 Lanarkshire 18 19 24 31 35 37 37 37 Lothian 14 21 30 25 28 38 41 41 Orkney — — — — — — — — Shetland — — — — — — — — Tayside 15 15 15 15 15 20 24 28 Western Isles — — — — — — — — Note:
1 Average available staffed beds in specialties of intensive therapy unit.
Source:
Information and Statistic Division.
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