HC Deb 19 February 1980 vol 979 cc140-1W
Mr. Pavitt

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the teaching hospitals in Greater London and the number of beds in each, together with the total number of beds available in the same area within the National Health Service.

Dr. Vaughan

The information requested is given in the tables below:

A. GENERAL TEACHING HOSPITALS
Beds
St. Bartholomew's 780
The London (Whitechapel) 675
Royal Free 798
University College 598
The Middlesex 663
Charing Cross 751
St. George's (Hyde Park Corner and Tooting) 551
Westminster 358
St. Mary's, W2 414
Guy's 795
King's College 604
St. Thomas' 961
Hammersmith 570
Total 8,518

B. AREA HEALTH AUTHORITIES (TEACHING)
Total number of beds in the hospitals managed by the Area Health Authorities (Teaching) in Greater London 32,253

C. SPECIALIST POSTGRADUATE TEACHING HOSPITALS
Beds
Hospitals for Sick Children 546
National Hospital for Nervous Diseases 348
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital 128
Moorfields Eye Hospitals 129
The Bethlem Royal and the Maudsley 481
St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin 54
The National Heart and Chest Hospitals 616
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals 326
St. Peter's Hospitals 124
The Royal Marsden Hospital 358
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 284
The Eastman Dental Hospital Nil
Total 3,394

Notes:

1. The information given is the average number of beds available during 1978.

2. The bed totals shown in A, B and C are for all specialties, both acute and non acute.

3. Many hospitals are involved in undergraduate teaching. Only the figures for the main hospital for each medical school have been quoted in A above.

4. The total bed figure for the Area Health Authorities (Teaching) does not include the beds available in the specialist postgraduate teaching hospitals.

5. The figures quoted in C are the total bed numbers of all the hospitals managed by each of the twelve Boards of Governors.