HC Deb 01 March 2004 vol 418 cc720-1W
Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many in-patient beds have been available in England for patients with(a) mental health conditions and (b) learning disabilities in each year since 1997, broken down by (i) NHS region and (ii) strategic health authority. [154006]

Ms Rosie Winterton

The number of in-patient beds for patients with mental health conditions or with a learning disability are collected annually from each national health service trust and published at http://www.performance.doh.gov.uk/hospitalactivity/. Prior to 2000–01 this information was also published in "Bed Availability and Occupancy", copies of which are available in the Library.

Aggregations are included relevant to the NHS organisational structures in place at the time. It is not possible to aggregate these statistics to organisational structures that did not exist at the time. For the period 1997–98 to 2001–02 figures for available beds in the mental health and learning disabilities sectors for each NHS region are shown in table 1 and table 2. For 2002–03 figures for each strategic health authority are shown in table 3.

Table 2: Average daily number of available beds, learning disability sector, 1997–98 to 2001–02
England Northern and

Yorkshire

 Trent West

Midland

 North

West

 Eastern London South

East

 South

West
1997–98 8,197 1,419 676 987 644 1,375 569 1,527 1,000
1998–99 7,491 1,306 666 901 572 1,264 554 1,415 813
1999–00 6,834 1,228 653 641 492 1,175 554 1,385 707
2000–01 6,316 1,207 730 718 414 974 488 1,207 578
2001–02 5,694 1,180 692 674 402 794 461 1,144 347
Source:
Department of Health form KHO3
Status:
Published data

Table 3: Average daily number of available beds, Strategic Health Authorities in England, 2002–03
Org. ID Name Mental illness Learning

disability
2002–03 32,753 5,038
2002–03 Q01 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire HA 1,433 350
2002–03 Q02 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire HA 982 166
2002–03 Q03 Essex HA 998 242
2002–03 Q04 North West London HA 1,624 20
2002–03 Q05 North Central London HA 1,180 28
2002–03 Q06 North East London HA 1,285 87
2002–03 Q07 South East London HA 1,385 23
2002–03 Q08 South West London HA 846 0
2002–03 Q09 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear HA 1,421 437
2002–03 Q10 County Durham and Tees Valley HA 951 234
2002–03 Q11 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire HA 676 130
2002–03 Q12 West Yorkshire HA 1,535 263
2002 Q13 Cumbria and Lancashire HA 1,444 255
2002 Q14 Greater Manchester HA 1,644 17
2002–03 Q15 Cheshire and Merseyside HA 1,482 113
2002–03 Q16 Thames Valley HA 1,061 98
2002–03 Q17 Hampshire and Isle of Wight HA 894 164
2002–03 Q18 Kent and Medway HA 758 95
2002–03 Q19 Surrey and Sussex HA 1,630 537
2002–03 Q20 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire HA 1,448 93
2002–03 Q21 South West Peninsula HA 558 59
2002–03 Q22 Somerset and Dorset HA 800 225
2002–03 Q23 South Yarkshire HA 981 133
2002–03 Q24 Trent HA 1,743 281
2002–03 Q25 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland HA 1,002 428
2002–03 Q26 Shropshire and Staffordshire HA 828 106
2002–03 Q27 Birmingham and the Black Country HA 1,446 255
2002–03 Q28 Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire HA 717 198
Source:
Department of Health form KHO3
Status:
Published