§ Captain Kerbyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many small hospitals have been closed since the publication of the Hospital Plan, 1962; how many beds have been lost to the National Health Service by those closures; how many of these beds were in charge of general practitioners; if he will name the hospitals closed in the South-West Metropolitan Hospital Board Region; and in what manner such beds have been replaced in each instance of closure.
§ Mr. EnnalsInformation in the form requested about the country as a whole is not readily available and would require disproportionate expenditure to produce. It is estimated that about 100 hospitals have been closed or converted to other hospital use since 1962. Closures are usually associated with the provision of new hospital buildings, or extension or replacement of existing ones. In the area covered by the South West Metropolitan hospital region, the following hospitals have been closed by the Regional Board or by Boards of Governors of Teaching Hospitals.
Hospital Closed Alternative Facilities Fountain Hospital, Tooting. Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton and St. Ebba's Hospital, Epsom. Red Roses, Weybridge Ellesmere Hospital, Walton-on-Thames. Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea. St. George's Hospital, Tooting and others. Princess Louise Convalescent Home, Littlehampton. St. Mary's Hospital Group, W.2. Fulham Maternity Hospital. Queen Charlottes, Hammersmith, St. Stephen's, Chelsea, Princess Beatrice, Earls Court, St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington. Fairfield Annex, Reigate. London Hospital Group, E.1.