§ Mr. Frank R. Whiteasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the consultant-patient ratio, the beds available and the waiting lists for geriatric any phycho-geriatric cases in each of the regional health authorities in England and Wales.
§ Mr. MoyleThe numbers of whole time equivalents of consultants per 100,000 population at risk in the specialties of geriatrics and mental illness (adult) in each of the regional health authorities in England and Wales at 30th September 1977 are given in the tables below, 637W together with the corresponding average number of beds available daily and waiting list sizes. Psycho-geriatrics is not identified in the statistics as a separate
CONSULTANTS PER 100,000 POPULATION AT RISK, AVERAGE DAILY NUMBER OF AVAILABLE BEDS AND WAITING LIST SIZE IN THE GERIATRICS SPECIALTY BY REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITY 1977 Regional health authority Number of whole time equivalents of consultants* per 100,000 population† aged over 65 years Average daily number of available beds Size of waiting list at 31st December 1977 Northern … … 6.3 3,825 321 Yorkshire … … 4.5 5,466 222 Trent … … 4.1 5,092 255 East Anglia … … 4.2 2,321 183 North-West Thames‡ … … 3.3 3,237 506 North-East Thames‡ … … 4.5 4,484 358 South-East Thames‡ … … 3.9 4,389 198 South-West Thames … … 4.6 3,251 144 Wessex … … 5.1 3,565 379 Oxford … … 5.6 2,175 120 South-Western … … 3.8 3,860 312 West Midlands … … 5.2 6,211 853 Mersey … … 6.8 3,149 237 North-Western … … 5.0 4,905 677 Wales … … 5.6 4,019 350 England and Wales‡ … … 4.7 59,949 5,115 * Includes senior hospital medical officers with the allowance. † Mid-1977 management population estimates. ‡ Excludes London post graduate teaching hospitals.
CONSULTANTS PER 100,000 POPULATION AT RISK, AVERAGE DAILY NUMBER OF AVAILABLE BEDS AND WAITING LIST SIZE IN THE GERIATRICS SPECIALTY BY REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITY 1977 Regional health authority Number of whole time equivalents of consultants* per 100,000 population† Average daily number of available beds Size of waiting list at 31st December 1977 Northern … … 1.8 6,276 350 Yorkshire … … 1.7 7,878 22 Trent … … 1.4 7,576 273 East Anglia … … 1.7 3,230 163 North-West Thames† … … 2.4 8,593 276 North-East Thames† … … 2.0 7,292 190 South-East Thames† … … 1.9 7,585 92 South-West Thames … … 2.2 8,398 261 Wessex … … 2.0 4,648 65 Oxford … … 1.9 2,608 — South-Western … … 1.9 5,901 99 West Midlands … … 1.8 8,833 214 Mersey … … 1.6 6,613 162 North-Western … … 1.7 6,561 102 Wales … … 1.8 5,519 33 England and Wales‡ … … 1.9 97,511 2,302 * Includes senior hospital medical officers with the allowance. ‡ Mid-1977 management population estimates. ‡ Excludes London post graduate teaching hospitals.