§ 71. Dame Irene Wardasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will state in each regional hospital board area
Whole-time equivalents per 50 beds Number of beds Hospital Group Consultants Other hospital doctors General Private (Section 5) England: Newcastle—United Newcastle Hospitals 3.6 6.2 894 26 Leeds—United Leeds Hospitals 2.5 5.0 1,058 70 Sheffield—United Sheffield Hospitals 2.4 5.6 1,448 44 East Anglian—United Cambridge Hospitals 2.5 5.4 847 20 Oxford—United Oxford Hospitals 2.7 6.0 1,361 27 South Western—United Bristol Hospitals 2.6 7.2 1,012 13 Birmingham—United Birmingham Hospitals 2.9 4.4 1,696 106 Manchester—United Manchester Hospitals 2.5 7.2 1,240 89 Liverpool—United Liverpool Hospitals 1.7 4.5 1,562 42 North-West Metropolitan Region 2.5 6.0 8,669 470 The Royal Free Hospital 2.1 6.1 1,063 36 University College Hospital 2.0 5.1 1,227 120 The Middlesex Hospital 2.3 6.0 1,015 72 Charing Cross Hospital 2.6 6.1 969 15 St. Mary's Hospital 2.2 5.2 1,329 81 The Hammersmith and St. Mark's Hospital 4.2 9.4 791 27 The Hospital for Sick Children 2.4 4.3 713 31 The National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases 4.3 7.6 307 14 The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital 3.8 7.7 188 14 Moorfields Eye Hospital 1.8 7.6 345 34 St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin 3.9 10.5 50 2 The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital 1.5 2.9 411 10 The National Heart Hospital 4.9 12.0 95 1 St. Peter's, St. Paul's and St. Philip's and the Shaftesbury Hospitals 3.1 5.5 160 13 The Eastman Dental Hospital 29.2 8.3 6 — North-East Metropolitan Region 2.2 6.1 2,379 50 The Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew 2.9 6.6 818 — The London Hospital 1.9 5.9 1,561 50 South-East Metropolitan Region 2.0 5.1 3,764 160 Guy's Hospital 2.0 5.3 1,532 97 King's College Hospital 1.6 4.1 1,728 53 The Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital 3.1 8.2 504 10 South-West Metropolitan Region 2.2 5.9 4,832 205 St. George's Hospital 2.7 7.6 903 15 Westminster Hospital 2.3 6.3 1,137 60 St. Thomas's Hospital 2.0 5.6 1,548 42 The Hospitals for Diseases of the Chest 1.6 4.5 627 39 The Royal Marsden Hospital 3.3 5.9 304 19 Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospitals 2.0 3.8 313 30 Wales: The Cardiff and District University Hospitals 2.7 7.3 1,044 — Notes:
Honorary staff are included.
The numbers of beds are as at 31st December, 1969.
The figures relate to all the hospitals in the groups named.
34Wthe number of consultants and hospital medical officers allocated to 50 beds in each teaching hospital, stating the name and place of each hospital and the total number of beds covering public and private wards.
§ Mr. AlisonIndividual consultants are not necessarily allocated to specified numbers of beds. Many doctors have part-time contracts with two or more hospital authorities. The following table shows the numbers of the whole-time equivalents per 50 beds at 30th September, 1969.