§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report the number of hospitals closed in each area health authority in the last three years.
§ Mr. Moyle, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 19th November 1976; Vol. 919, c. 792] gave the following information:
The number of hospitals closed by each area health authority in the last three years is shown in the following table:
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NUMBERS OF HOSPITALS CLOSED DURING THE LAST THREE YEARS Northern Regional Health Authority Cleveland Area Health Authority 3 Cumbria Area Health Authority 2 Durham Area Health Authority 1 Northumberland Area Health Authority 1 115W
Gateshead Area Health Authority None Newcastle upon Tyne Area Health Authority (Teaching) None North Tyneside Area Health Authority None South Tyneside Area Health Authority 2 Sunderland Area Health Authority None Yorkshire Regional Health Authority Humberside Area Health Authority 2 North Yorkshire Area Health Authority 2 Bradford Area Health Authority 1 Calderdale Area Health Authority None Kirklees Area Health Authority 2 Leeds Area Health Authority (Teaching) 1 Wakefield Area Health Authority 3 Trent Regional Health Authority Derbyshire Area Health Authority 1 Leicestershire Area Health Authority 1 Lincolnshire Area Health Authority 2 Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority (Teaching) 1 Barnsley Area Health Authority 2 Doncaster Area Health Authority None Rotherham Area Health Authority none Sheffield Area Health Authority (Teaching) 1 East Anglia Regional Health Authority Cambridgeshire Area Health Authority (Teaching) 3 Norfolk Area Health Authority 1 Suffolk Area Health Auhority 1 North-West Thames Regional Health Authority Bedfordshire Area Health Authority None Hertfordshire Area Health Authority None Barnet Area Health Authority 2 Brent and Harrow Area Health Authority None Ealing Hammersmith & Hounslow Area Health Authority (Teaching) None Hillingdon Area Health Authority None Kensington Chelsea and Westminster Area Health Authority (Teaching) 1 North-East Thames Regional Health Authority Essex Area Health Authority None Barking and Havering Area Health Authority 1 Camden & Islington Area Health Authority (Teaching) 5 City and East London Area Health Authority (Teaching) 2 Enfield & Haringey Area Health Authority None Redbridge & Waltham Forest Area Health Authority None South-East Thames Regional Health Authority East Sussex Area Health Authority 3 Kent Area Health Authority 1 Greenwich & Bexley Area Health Authority 4 Bromley Area Health Authority 2 Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham Area Health Authority (Teaching) 3
South-West Thames Regional Health Authority Surrey Area Health Authority 6 West Sussex Area Health Authority None Croydon Area Health Authority None Kingston & Richmond Area Health Authority 1 Merton, Sutton & Wandsworth Area Health Authority (Teaching) 1 Wessex Regional Health Authority Dorset Area Health Authority None Hampshire Area Health Authority (Teaching) 5 Wiltshire Area Health Authority None Isle of Wight Area Health Authority 1 Oxford Regional Health Authority Berkshire Area Health Authority 2 Buckinghamshire Area Health Authority 1 Northants Area Health Authority 1 Oxfordshire Area Health Authority (Teaching) None S. Western Regional Health Authority Avon Area Health Authority (Teaching) 2 Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Area Health Authority None Devon Area Health Authority 6 Gloucester Area Health Authority 2 Somerset Area Health Authority None W. Midlands Regional Health Authority Hereford and Worcester Area Health Authority None Salop Area Health Authority 2 Staffordshire Area Health Authority 1 Warwickshire Area Health Authority 2 Birmingham Area Health Authority (Teaching) None Coventry Area Health Authority None Dudley Area Health Authority None Sandwell Area Health Authority None Solihull Area Health Authority None Walsall Area Health Authority None Wolverhampton Area Health Authority None Mersey Regional Health Authority Cheshire Area Health Authority 4 Liverpool Area Health Authority (Teaching) 1 St. Helens and Knowsley Area Health Authority None Sefton Area Health Authority 3 Wirral Area Health Authority 3
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976* Full-time … … 90,579 95,449 97,534 102,368 105,497 107,989 108,669 Part-time … … 35,101 35,610 37,498 40,724 38,500 45,365 45,373 Total … … 125,680 131,059 135,032 143,092 143,997 153,354 154,042 The reorganisation of local government, the local health services and the water industry in 1974 means that figures after that date are not strictly comparable with those for earlier years.
*Provisional. These figures do not include an additional 1,171 full-time and nine part-time employed under the job creation programme.
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North-Western Regional Health Authority Lancashire Area Health Authority None Bolton Area Health Authority None Bury Area Health Authority None Manchester Area Health Authority (Teaching) 1 Oldham Area Health Authority None Rochdale Area Health Authority None Salford Area Health Authority (Teaching) None Stockport Area Health Authority None Tameside Area Health Authority None Trafford Area Health Authority None Wigan Area Health Authority None