§ Mr. Pavittasked 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.
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§ Dr. VaughanThe 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.