§ Mr. Liptonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people are 126W awaiting admission to each of the London teaching hospitals.
§ Sir K. JosephThe latest available figures, relating in the main to 31st October 1973, are as follows :
1. The Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew 1,356 2. The London Hospital 3,944 3. The Royal Free Hospital 995 4. University College Hospital 1,553 5. The Middlesex Hospital 2,379 6. Charing Cross Hospital 1,538 7. St. George's Hospital 1,974 8. Westminster Hospital 1,816 9. St. Mary's Hospital 2,067 10. Guy's Hospital 2,883 11. King's College Hospital 1,767 12. St. Thomas' Hospital 2,700 13. The Hammersmith Hospital 1,505 14. The Hospital for Sick Children 1,350 15. The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases 295 16. Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital 908 17. Moorfields Eye Hospital 1,078 18. The Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudsley Hospital 91 19. St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin 21 20. National Heart and Chest Hospital 155 21. Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital 738 22. St. Peter's Hospitals 305 23. The Royal Marsden Hospital 65 24. Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospitals 349 25. The Eastman Dental Hospital 35 These figures exclude expectant mothers booked for confinement or whose treatment has been deferred (e.g., for personal or medical reasons), but include certain patients for whom beds have been booked and who are shortly to be admitted.