§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT the average length of stay for in-patients, in medical and in surgical cases, respectively, over the hospitals which have been studied by the Brunei University Unit, namely, Hilling-don, Northwick Park, North London and Staines groups, and also the averages for the regions in which those hospitals are situated.
§ Sir K. JosephFollowing are the figures of average length of stay in days during the year 1971 and 1972 in the hospitals of the four authorities concerned as compared with average figures during the year 1971—the latest available—for the North-West Metropolitan Region in which the hospitals are all situated.
Hospital Authority General Surgery General Medicine 1971 1972 1971 1972 Hillingdon … 11.0 10.8 16.1 16.0 Northwick Park … 10.8 9.3 16.1 13.1 North London … 8.2 8.8 17.1 14.1 Staines … 9.4 9.2 14.6 14.6 Regional Average … 9.6 N.A. 16.0 N.A.