§ Mr. Peter Bottomleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) why he has not required the health authorities to undertake full consultation procedures on his altered rationalisation plan which includes the closure of the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital and the Memorial Hospital, in view of the desire of local people to develop a more satisfactory plan; and whether the area health authority can itself decide to undertake full consultation;
(2) what are his past and future estimates of the catchment population in the Greenwich and Bexley Area Health Authority;
(3) what are the reasons for waiting lists at the Brook Hospital;
(4) what effect the closure of the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital would have on waiting lists at the Brook Hospital;
(5) what estimate he has made of the weekly costs of a convalescent patient at the Greenwich District Hospital, the Brook Hospital, and the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital, respectively;
(6) how many patients at the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital are transferred from other hospitals; and for what reasons;
(7) if he will give details of the waiting lists in 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977 for admission to hospital for surgery, treatment or care for categories of conditions at the Brook Hospital, the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital, and the Memorial Hospital respectively;
(8) what are the estimated financial savings resulting from the temporary and permanent closure of 300 beds at the Greenwich District Hospital;
(9) what are the existing uses of the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital and the Memorial Hospital;
593W(10) what is the degree of over-provision of acute beds in the Greenwich and Bexley Area Health Authority;
(11) how many acute beds there are in the Greenwich District Hospital;
(12) how many acute beds there are in the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital and the Memorial Hospital;
(13) if he will give an assurance that the future of the Brook Hospital will not be threatened during the next 10 years;
(14) what letters, petitions and representations he has received concerning the future of the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital; and which were in favour of the hospital remaining open;
(15) if he will publish comparative bed occupancy rates and cost estimates for the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital, the Brook Hospital and the Greenwich District Hospital; and if he will indicate at what time of day the bed occupancy is measured;
(16) whether the Greenwich and Bexley Area Health Authority recommended the closure of the Memorial Hospital;
(17) if he will make a detailed statement of his reasons for the closure of the Memorial Hospital;
(18) whether the Greenwich and Bexley Area Health Authority recommended the closure of the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital;
(19) why he believes that the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital has been under-occupied for a long time; and why he believes that services it has given can be provided more effectively in the area;
(20) what are the alternative uses planned for the buildings and lands of the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital and the Memorial Hospital;
(21) if he will make a detailed statement of his reasons for asking for the closure of the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital.