HC Deb 27 November 1979 vol 974 cc593-5W
Mr. Mike Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many

Area Health Authority Average daily number of beds available in departments of Geriatric medicine per 1,000 population aged 65 and over
1. Northern Regional Health Authority:
Cleveland 10.0
Cumbria 9.9
Durham 10.4
Northumberland 6.5
Gateshead 6.5
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 7.1
North Tyneside 7.8
South Tyneside 6.3
Sunderland 9.8
2. Yorkshire Regional Health Authority:
Humberside 9.8
North Yorkshire 9.2
Bradford 10.5
Calderdale 12.0
Kirkless 11.7
Leeds 9.2
Wakefield 12.5
3. Trent Regional Health Authority:
Derbyshire 7.7
Leicestershire 8.1
Lincolnshire 8.9
Nottinghamshire 7.3
Barnsley 8.1
Doncaster 8.2
Rotherham 9.0
Sheffield 9.3
4. East Anglia Regional Health Authority:
Cambridgeshire 8.9
Norfolk 6.6
Suffolk 11.5
5. North-West Thames Regional Health Authority:
Bedfordshire 7.5
Hertfordshire 8.6
Barnet 6.0
Brent/Harrow 6.9
Ealing/Hammersmith/Hounslow 3.7
Hillingdon 6.6
Kensington and Chelsea/Westminster 7.1
6. North-East Thames Regional Health Authority:
Essex 7.3
Barking/Havering 9.4
Camden/Islington 8.1
City and East London 8.2
Enfield/Haringey 6.4
Redbridge/Waltham Forest 10.6
7. South-East Thames Regional Health Authority:
East Sussex 6.8
Kent 7.8
Bexley/Greenwich 8.4
Bromley 8.1
Lambeth/Southwark/Lewisham 5.7

geriatric hospital beds there are in each area health authority in England and Wales per head of population aged over 60 years.

Sir George Young

Information in the terms requested is not available.

The average daily number of beds available in departments of geriatric medicine per 1,000 population aged 65 and over in each area health authority in England and Wales is set out below.

Area Health Authority Average daily number of beds available in departments of Geriatric medicine per 1,000 population aged 65 and over
8. South-West Thames Regional Health Authority:
Surrey 7.7
West Sussex 4.2
Croydon 9.5
Kingston/Richmond 6.0
Merton/Sutton/Wandsworth 7.6
9. Wessex Regional Health Authority:
Dorset 7.9
Hampshire 7.0
Wiltshire 11.8
Isle of Wight 7.7
10. Oxford Regional Health Authority:
Berkshire 6.9
Buckinghamshire 8.8
Northamptonshire 9.2
Oxfordshire 6.7
11. South-Western Regional Health Authority:
Avon 6.9
Cronwall and Isles of Scilly 7.1
Devon 7.5
Gloucestershire 9.0
Somerset 8.5
12. West Midlands Regional Health Authority:
Hereford and Worcester 9.0
Salop 12.2
Staffordshire 9.2
Warwickshire 6.6
Birmingham 13.2
Coventry 10.4
Dudley 7.1
Sandwell 4.3
Solihull 1.9
Walsall 5.3
Wolverhampton 7.1
13. Mersey Regional Health Authority:
Cheshire 10.9
Liverpool 9.2
St. Helen's with Knowsley 5.7
Sefton 12.8
Wirral 8.1
14. North-Western Regional Health Authority:
Lancashire 6.9
Bolton 11.3
Bury 8.8
Manchester 10.6
Oldham 7.9
Rochdale 7.8
Salford 7.7
Stockport 8.0
Tameside 7.7
Trafford 5.1
Wigan 10.9
Wales:
Clwyd 10.3
Dyfed 10.5
Gwent 8.8
Gwynedd 10.1
Mid-Glamorgan 10.8
Powys 14.7
South Glamorgan 8.0
West Glamorgan 8.0