§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the current number of geriatric beds in each health board area; and what plans each health board has for new bed spaces currently (a) under construction and (b) at planning stage.
§ Mr. FairgrieveThe number of geriatric beds in each health board area is set out in the following table 1.
It is planned to provide, as part of the major Health Service building programme, approximately 450 additional geriatric beds, of which 90 will be in buildings now under construction. These 187W are listed by health board areas in table 2. The major programme also makes provision for some 1,000 geriatric beds to replace existing facilities. In addition, health boards finance from their ordinary capital allocations smaller schemes to provide new and replacement accommodation. Full details of these projects are not available centrally.
TABLE 1 Geriatric beds at 30 September 1978 Argyll and Clyde 987 Ayrshire and Arran 628 Borders 225 Dumfries and Galloway 271 Fife 504 Forth Valley 519 Grampian 829 Greater Glasgow 2,262 Highland 394 Lanarkshire 1,096 Lothian 1,387 Orkney 49 Shetland 87 Tayside 864 Western Isles 100 Scotland 10,202 Average available staffed bed figures in NHS hospitals, joint user hospitals and institutions with which health boards have contractual arrangements.
Long Stay Health Board Assessment Excluding General Practitioner Units General Practitioner Units only Total Argyll and Clyde 125 30 — 155 Ayrshire and Arran — — — Nil Borders 22 58 — 80 Dumfries and Galloway 27 — — 27 Fife 190 — — 190 Forth Valley 166 28 — 194 Grampian 10 — 29 39 Greater Glasgow 140* 170 — 310 Highlands 23 52 — 75 Lanarkshire 178 40* — 218 Lothian 430 16 — 446 Orkney — — 43 43 Shetland — — — Nil Tayside 72 33 — 105 Western Isles — 14 — 14 Total 1,383 441 72 1,896 * Numbers given include 41 and 40 persons respectively waiting for beds provided outside NHS hospitals under joint user or contractual arrangements.