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Mr. Geraint Howells
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many hospital beds per 1,000 population there are in each health area in England.
Dr. Vaughan: The information for 1978 is as follows:
| Average Daily Number of Available Beds per 1,000 Population |
| Northern Regional Health Authority |
|
8.3 |
| Cleveland |
… |
6.9 |
| Cumbria |
… |
7.7 |
| Durham |
… |
8.6 |
| Northumberland |
… |
14.3 |
| Gateshead |
… |
6.5 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
… |
12.0 |
| North Tyneside |
… |
3.8 |
| South Tyneside |
… |
4.9 |
| Sunderland |
… |
8.2 |
| Yorkshire Regional Health Authority |
… |
8.5 |
| Humberside |
… |
7.4 |
| North Yorkshire |
… |
8.5 |
| Bradford |
… |
8.4 |
| Calderdale |
… |
7.3 |
| Kirklees |
… |
9.1 |
| Leeds |
… |
8.8 |
| Wakefield |
… |
11.5 |
| Trent Regional Health Authority |
|
7.1 |
| Derbyshire |
… |
7.0 |
| Leicestershire |
… |
6.1 |
| Lincolnshire |
… |
9.0 |
| Nottinghamshire |
… |
7.0 |
| Barnsley |
… |
4.3 |
| Doncaster |
… |
6.2 |
| Rotherham |
… |
5.0 |
| Sheffield |
… |
9.9 |
359W
| Average Daily Number of Available Beds per 1,000 Population |
| East Anglian Regional Health Authority |
7.1 |
| Cambridgeshire |
6.6 |
| Norfolk |
7.2 |
| Suffolk |
7.7 |
| North West Thames Regional Health Authority |
8.3 |
| Bedfordshire |
5.9 |
| Hertfordshire |
8.5 |
| Barnet |
7.4 |
| Brent/Harrow |
8.2 |
| Ealing/Hammersmith/Hounslow |
7.0 |
| Hillingdon |
7.1 |
| Kensington and Chelsea/Westminster |
14.8 |
| North East Thames Regional Health Authority |
8.2 |
| Essex |
6.8 |
| Barking /Havering |
8.7 |
| Camden/Islington |
13.0 |
| City and East London |
8.3 |
| Enfield/Haringey |
5.3 |
| Redbridge/Waltham Forest |
11.5 |
| South East Thames Regional Health Authority |
8.2 |
| East Sussex |
7.2 |
| Kent |
8.3 |
| Bexley/Greenwich |
8.6 |
| Bromley |
9.3 |
| Lambeth/Southwark/Lewisham |
8.4 |
| South West Thames Regional Health Authority |
9.1 |
| Surrey |
10.0 |
| West Sussex |
6.2 |
| Croydon |
10.2 |
| Kingston/Richmond |
8.9 |
| Merton/Sutton/Wandsworth |
10.0 |
| Wessex Regional Health Authority |
7.1 |
| Dorset |
6.6 |
| Hampshire |
6.8 |
| Wiltshire |
7.9 |
| Isle of Wight |
8.3 |
| Oxford Regional Health Authority |
6.1 |
| Berkshire |
6.6 |
| Buckinghamshire |
5.4 |
| Northamptonshire |
5.8 |
| Oxfordshire |
6.6 |
| South Western Regional Health Authority |
8.2 |
| Avon |
9.5 |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |
6.6 |
| Devon |
8.3 |
| Gloucestershire |
6.5 |
| Somerset |
9.7 |
360W
| Average Daily Number of Available Beds per 1,000 Population |
| West Midlands Regionald Health Authority |
7.2 |
| Hereford and Worcester |
9.0 |
| Salop |
7.2 |
| Staffordshire |
6.6 |
| Warwickshire |
7.8 |
| Birmingham |
9.8 |
| Coventry |
5.7 |
| Dudley |
4.9 |
| Sandwell |
2.3 |
| Solihull |
4.6 |
| Walsall |
7.0 |
| Wolverhampton |
5.9 |
| Mersey Regional Health Authority |
9.2 |
| Cheshire |
10.6 |
| Liverpool |
11.5 |
| St. Helens with Knowsley |
3.3 |
| Sefton |
10.5 |
| Wirral |
7.6 |
| North Western Regional Health Authority |
7.5 |
| Lancashire |
9.8 |
| Bolton |
5.3 |
| Bury |
4.2 |
| Manchester |
11.7 |
| Oldham |
4.8 |
| Rochdale |
4.6 |
| Salford |
12.1 |
| Stockport |
5.8 |
| Tameside |
3.6 |
| Trafford |
4.0 |
| Wigan |
4.6 |