§ Mr. Newtonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if she will give for each area health authority in the North-East Thames and East Anglian Regions the population served at the latest available date, the number of new hospitals or major improvements, respectively, completed since the inception of the National Health Service, and the number of new hospitals or major improvements, respectively, expected to be completed within the next five years;
(2) if she will give for each district in the Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire Health Areas the population served at the latest available date, the number of new hospitals or major improvements respectively completed since the inception of the National Health 417W Service, and the number of new hospitals or major improvements, respectively, expected
Schemes† completed since 1948 Schemes† now in progress expected to be completed within five years Population*(thousands) New hospitals or units Major improvements‡ New hospitals or units Major improvements North East Thames Region: Essex AHA: Basildon and Thurrock … 255 1 3 — 1 Chelmsford … 303 — — — — Colchester … 247 — — — — Harlow … 247 1 1 — — Southend … 306 — 1 — — — 1,358 — 2 — 5 — — — 1 Barking and Havering AHA … 407 — 3 — 1 Camden and Islington AHA … 503 — — 1 — City and East London AHA … 621 — — — — Enfield and Haringey AHA … 448 — 2 — 6 Redbridge and Waltham Forest AHA … 472 — 1 — — East Anglian Region: Cambridgeshire AHA: Cambridge and Isle of Ely … 302 1 4 — — Huntingdon and Peterborough … 173 — 3 — 2 — 475 — 1 — 7 — — — 2 Norfolk AHA: Norwich … 401 1 2 — 6 Great Yarmouth and Waverey … 169 — 2 — — King's Lynn … 163 — 3 — 1 — 773 — 1 — 7 — — — 7 Suffolk AHA: Bury St. Edmunds … 175 1 2 — 1 Ipswich … 294 — 7 — 2 — 469 — 1 — 9 — — — 3 * Based on1971 census, and adjusted for overlap. † Excluding postgraduate teaching hospitals. ‡ Major phases of new building, or redevelopment of existing hospitals.