HC Deb 12 November 1974 vol 881 cc61-3W
Mr. D. E. Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many geriatric day hospital places are available per 1,000 population aged 65 years and over in each of the area health authorities, in England as a whole and in Great Britain.

Dr. Owen

I regret that the information requested is not centrally available and could not be obtained without disproportionate time and effort.

Mr. D. E. Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of allocated geriatric hospital beds per 1,000 population aged 65 years and over in each of the area health authorities in England, in England as a whole and in Great Britain.

Dr. Owen

The ratio in Great Britain is 9.2, in England as a whole 8.8 and in each area health authority as follows:

Northern RHA
Cleveland 10.7
Cumbria 11.1
Durham 10.8
Northumberland 9.6
Gateshead 5.7
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 6.3
North Tyneside 6.9
South Tyneside 7.3
Sunderland 11.4
Trent RHA
Derbyshire 9.0
Leicestershire 8.1
Lincolnshire 8.0
Nottinghamshire 8.0
Barnsley 7.1
Doncaster 9.0
Rotherham 12.1
Sheffield 10.9
Yorkshire RHA
Humberside 10.3
North Yorkshire 9.3
Bradford 13.8
Calderdale 12.8
Kirklees 12.5
Leeds 9.6
Wakefield 14.5

East Anglian RHA
Cambridgeshire 7.6
Norfolk 8.2
Suffolk 10.5
North West Thames RHA
Bedfordshire 8.3
Hertfordshire 9.8
Barnet 8.2
Brent/Harrow 5.5
Ealing/Hammersmith/Hounslow 4.1
Hillingdon 8.0
Kensington & Chelsea/Westminster 7.3
South East Thames RHA
East Sussex 6.6
Kent 8.6
Greenwich / Bexley 7.0
Bromley 9.1
Lambeth /Southwark/Lewisham 6.9
Wessex RHA
Dorset 8.1
Hampshire 6.8
Wiltshire 22.7
Isle of Wight 6.9
South Western RHA
Avon 7.1
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly 6.2
Devon 8.6
Gloucestershire 7.4
Somerset 9.4
North East Thames RHA
Essex 7.4
Barking/Havering 10.4
Camden /Islington 7.4
City and East London 8.2
Enfield / Haringey 8.4
Redbridge/Waltham Forest 11.2
South West Thames RHA
Surrey 8.l
West Sussex 4.1
Croydon 10.1
Kingston/Richmond 5.9
Merton/Sutton/Wandsworth 9.9
Oxford RHA
Berkshire 8.8
Buckinghamshire 6.0
Northamptonshire 13.3
Oxfordshire 7.6
West Midlands RHA
Hereford & Worcester 10.8
Salop 14.6
Staffordshire 10.7
Warwickshire 7.3
Birmingham 14.1
Coventry 8.1
Dudley 8.2
Sandwell 4.2
Solihull 2.3
Walsall 7.3
Wolverhampton 6.8
Mersey RHA
Cheshire 12.7
Liverpool 9.1
St. Helens with Knowsley 5.1
Sefton 9.7
Wirral 7.9

North Western RHA
Lancashire 7.5
Bolton 10.6
Bury 8.0
Manchester 11.4
Oldham 9.4
Rochdale 10.7
Salford 8.1
Stockport 7.0
Thameside 9.6
Trafford 6.1
Wigan 10.5
(The figures are derived from the average daily number of available geriatric beds in 1973.)