HC Deb 06 July 1976 vol 914 cc534-8W
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services in how many and which National Health Service hospitals patients have operations for (a) open heart surgery, (b) neurosurgery, (c) neo-natal surgery, and (d) radiotherapy; what percentage of patients occupied pay beds for each category of operation between the years 1960 and 1976, giving the exact percentages for each year; and what percentage of these patients came from abroad for each of those years.

14. Mr. Ennals,

pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 5th July 1976; [Vol. 914, c. 442], circulated the following information:

The following 36 hospitals in England undertake open-heart surgery:

Region and Hospital

Northern

  • Shotley Bridge, Consett, Co. Durham
  • Seaham Hall, Seaham, Co. Durham

Yorks

  • Leeds Royal Infirmary
  • Killingbeck (Leeds)

Trent

  • United Sheffield Hospitals
  • Northern General Hospital

East Anglia

  • Papworth, Cambs

North-West Thames

  • Hammersmith
  • Hospital for Sick Children (GOS)
  • Middlesex
  • Harefield
  • St. Mary's, Paddington
  • University College Hospital
  • National Heart Hospital

North-East Thames

  • The London
  • St. Bartholomew's

South-East Thames

  • Guy's
  • Brook General
  • Charing Cross

Region and Hospital

South-West Thames

  • St. George's
  • Westminster
  • St. Thomas's
  • The Brompton
  • London Chest

Oxford

  • The Radcliffe Infirmary

South-Western

  • Royal Infirmary, Bristol

West Midlands

  • Queen Elizabeth
  • Children's—Birmingham
  • King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Hertford Hill, Warwicks
  • Cheshire Joint Sanatorium, Stoke-on-Trent

North-Western

  • Manchester Royal Infirmary
  • Wythenshawe

Mersey

  • Mossley Hill in association with Sefton General
  • Broadgreen
  • Myrtle Street Children's

Wessex

  • Southampton Chest

Neurosurgical operations are undertaken at the following 45 hospitals in England but from time to time such operations are also undertaken elsewhere.

Northern

  • Newcastle General
  • Sunderland Royal Infirmary
  • Middlesbrough-West Lane

Yorks

  • Leeds General Infirmary
  • Chapel Allerton
  • Hull Royal Infirmary
  • Wakefield-Pinderfields

Trent

  • Sheffield Royal Infirmary
  • Derby Royal Infirmary
  • Leicester Infirmary

East Anglia

  • Addenbrooke's

North-West Thames

  • The Middlesex
  • St. Mary's
  • Maida Vale
  • Charing Cross
  • Central Middlesex

North-East Thames

  • The London
  • St. Bartholomews
  • University College
  • The Hospital for Sick Children
  • The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases (Queen Square)
  • Whittington
  • Oldchurch

Region and Hospital

South-East Thames

  • Guy's
  • Maudsley
  • St. Thomas'
  • Kings College
  • The Brook

South-West Thames

  • St. Georges
  • Hurstwood Park
  • Atkinson Morley

Wessex

  • Southampton-Wessex Neurological Centre

Oxford

  • Radcliffe Infirmary

South Western

  • Frenchay

West Midlands

  • Queen Elizabeth
  • Birmingham Childrens
  • Smethwick-Midland Centre of Neurology and Neurosurgery

North-Western

  • Manchester Royal Infirmary
  • Salford Royal
  • Royal Manchester Childrens
  • Crumpsall
  • Booth Hall
  • Preston Royal Infirmary
  • Lancaster Moor

Mersey

  • Walton

Neonatal surgery is carried out by paediatric surgeons, some general surgeons and specialists in neurosurgery, cardiac surgery and orthopaedics. I regret that information about the numbers of hospitals in which such work is undertaken is not readily available.

The 53 hospitals listed below have megavoltage equipment for radiotherapy. In addition an approximately similar number of smaller centres have only superficial or orthovoltage equipment. These are usually linked with one of the major centres.

Northern

  • Newcastle General
  • N. Ormesby

Yorkshire

  • Cookridge
  • Hull Royal Infirmary

Trent

  • Weston Park
  • Derbyshire Royal Infirmary
  • St. George's
  • Leicester Royal Infirmary
  • Nottingham General

East Anglian

  • Addenbrookes
  • Norfolk and Norwich
  • Ipswich and East Suffolk

Region and Hospital

North-West Thames

  • Hammersmith
  • Middlesex
  • Charing Cross
  • Mouth Vernon
  • St. Mary's
  • Westminster

North-East Thames

  • Royal Free
  • University College Hospital
  • London
  • St. Bartholomew's
  • North Middlesex
  • Oldchurch
  • Southend General
  • Essex County

South-East Thames

  • St Thomas
  • Guy's
  • Kings College
  • Royal Sussex
  • St Williams
  • Pembury
  • Kent & Canterbury

South-West Thames

  • (Board of Governors
  • St Lukes
  • Royal Marsden)
  • Sutton & Fulham Road

Wessex

  • Poole General
  • Royal South Hants
  • St Mary's Portsmouth

Oxford

  • Churchill
  • Royal Berkshire
  • Northampton General

South Western

  • Bristol Radiotherapy Centre
  • Royal Devon and Exeter
  • Freedom Fields
  • Cheltenham General
  • Treliske

West Midlands

  • Queen Elizabeth
  • (United Birmingham)
  • Coventry & Warwick
  • Wolverhampton Royal Hospital
  • North Staffordshire

Mersey

  • Clatterbridge

North Western

  • Christie

I regret that information about the numbers of private patients undergoing open heart or neo-natal surgery is not available centrally as the necessary statistics are collected only on a specialty basis—e.g., cardiology, paediatricts, general surgery, etc.—and not by particular treatments or operations. However, in 1974, the latest year for which figures are available, the recorded number of private patients in cardiology, neurosurgery and radiotherapy as a percentage of all deaths and discharges in each of these specialties was 1.96 per cent., 2.26 per cent. and 2.21 per cent. respectively.

Detailed information about the numbers of private patients and the proportion who come from overseas who were admitted for treatment in these specialties varies widely from one region to another, depending in part, among other factors, on the willingness of consultants to give information to the NHS about their private patients.