§ 99. Dame Irene Wardasked the Minister of Health if he will state, as a percentage of the population, the beds available in all regions, for general purposes, maternity (pre- and post-natal), mental diseases, chronic sick, geriatric, emergency, cancer, convalescence, tuberculosis, and eye ailments, and, in addition, special centres for treatment of rheumatism and arthritic conditions, day beds for the elderly, physiotherapy treatment, spastics, and war disabled.
§ Mr. SnowFollowing are the figures:
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Regions (including teaching hospitals) Convalescence Ophthalmology Rheumatology All other beds All regions … 0.4 1.0 0.2 21.4 1. Newcastle … 0.2 0.9 — 21.9 2. Leeds … 0.6 0.8 0.7 21.5 3. Sheffield … 0.4 0.8 0.1 18.4 4. East Anglian … 0.2 0.6 0.3 15.9 5. North West Metropolitan … 0.4 0.7 0.2 25.1 6. North East Metropolitan … 0.2 1.7 — 21.7 7. South East Metropolitan … 1.3 1.1 — 22.8 8. South West Metropolitan … 0.1 0.9 0.1 22.7 9. Oxford … 0.8 0.8 0.1 20.9 10. South Western … 0.5 1.0 0.4 21.4 11. Wales … — 1.1 — 27.5 12. Birmingham … 0.3 0.9 0.3 18.0 13. Manchester … 0.1 1.0 0.3 20.1 14. Liverpool … 1.1 1.1 0.1 25.8 15. Wessex … 0.7 0.8 — 17.1 Notes:
(a) Beds are not usually specifically allocated for cancer, tuberculosis and emergency cases, being made available as required.
(b) Beds in National Health Service hospitals are not specifically allocated to war pensioners who are treated in beds allocated to the specialties. There were 2,830 war pensioners in National Health Service hospitals on the 31st December, 1966.
CENTRES FOR RHEUMATISM AND ELDERLY DAY PATIENTS ON 31ST DECEMBER, 1966 Number of Centres Region (including teaching hospitals) Rheumatism* Day Centres† for elderly patients Population (10,000s) All regions … … … 72 113 4,807.5 1. Newcastle … … … — 10 307.2 2. Leeds … … … 10 12 319.0 3. Sheffield … … … 8 5 456.8 4. East Anglian … … … 4 8 165.6 5. North-West Metropolitan … … … 9 4 421.0 6. North-East Metropolitan … … … 1 5 336.9 7. South-East Metropolitan … … … 1 7 349.3 8. South-West Metropolitan … … … 7 8 325.8 9. Oxford … … … 4 10 182.0 10. South Western … … … 11 1 303.3 11. Wales … … … 2 14 270.1 12. Birmingham … … … 9 6 502.1 13. Manchester … … … 3 18 453.8 14. Liverpool … … … 3 3 224.4 15. Wessex … … … — 2 190.1 Notes:
* Hospitals with beds allocated to rheumatology and rheumatology out-patient clinics. The number of beds are given in Table 1.
† Day Centres at which provision was made for attendance by geriatric and chronic sick patients. No information is available of the number of beds (if any) at these centres.
(a) There are no special centres for physiotherapy treatment, as it forms part of the normal hospital and specialist services.
(b) There is no specific allocation of day beds for spastics. Many hospitals have clinics and treatment which consists mainly of physiotherapy and occupational therapy is provided at most centres and many schools.
§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Minister of Health how many hospital beds in the area of the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board are not in use for lack of staff; what percentage this is of the total beds in the area; and how this percentage compares with other regional hospital boards.