§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what are the latest available numbers of neonatal intensive care units and cots in each area health authority in the United Kingdom;
(2) what are the latest available numbers of special care baby units and cots in each area health authority in the United Kingdom.
§ Sir George YoungThe table below gives details of the numbers of special care baby units and numbers of cots available by English area health authority for 1978, the latest year for which figures are available. Such provision in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is the responsibility of my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for those countries.
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1978 SCBUs in each area Area health authority Number of units Number of cots Cleveland 3 75 Cumbria 5 41 Durham 4 58 Northumberland 2 18 Gateshead 2 18
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Area health authority Number of units Number of cots Newcastle upon Tyne 2 45 North Tyneside 1 15 South Tyneside 1 14 Sunderland 2 48 Humberside 6 83 North Yorkshire 4 42 Bradford 3 57 Calderdale 1 18 Kirklees 2 38 Leeds 4 63 Wakefield 2 41 Derbyshire 2 55 Leicestershire 3 45 Lincolnshire 3 44 Nottinghamshire 5 93 Barnsley 1 20 Doncaster 1 24 Rotherham 1 14 Sheffield 3 54 Cambridgeshire 3 46 Norfolk 4 60 Suffolk 2 34 Bedfordshire 2 47 Hertfordshire 5 78 Barnet 2 32 Brent/Harrow 2 42 Ealing/Hammersmith/Hounslow 4 63 Hillingdon 1 14 Kensington/Chelsea/Westminster 4 46 Essex 7 97 Barking/Havering 2 38 Camden/Islington 4 67 City and East London 6 60 Enfield/Haringey 3 42 Redbridge/Waltham Forest 2 38 East Sussex 3 46 Kent 9 85 Bexley/Greenwich 4 49 Bromley 3 31 Lambeth/Southwark/Lewisham 4 78 Surrey 6 100 West Sussex 4 47 Croydon 1 20 Kingston/Richmond 1 13 Merton/Sutton/Wandsworth 3 32 Dorset 3 41 Hampshire 4 78 Wiltshire 4 62 Isle of Wight 1 9 Berkshire 3 69 Buckinghamshire 2 32 Northamptonshire 2 51 Oxfordshire 2 42 Avon 2 68 Cornwall/Isles of Scilly 1 20 Devon 4 61 Gloucestershire 2 32 Somerset 2 26 Hereford and Worcester 3 49 Salop 1 22 Staffordshire 2 49 Warwickshire 4 43 Birmingham 5 123 Coventry 1 30 Dudley 1 7 Sandwell 1 14 Solihull 2 53 Walsall 1 15 Wolverhampton 1 26 Cheshire 4 72 Liverpool 4 72 St. Helens/Knowsley 1 24 Sefton 2 31 Wirral 4 35 Lancashire 7 118 Bolton 1 21
Area health authority Number of units Number of cots Bury 1 17 Manchester 4 74 Oldham 1 19 Rochdale 1 15 Salford 1 21 Stockport 1 22 Tameside 1 24 Trafford 1 12 Wigan 1 25 Queen Charlotte's 1 20 Notes:
The column "number of units" relates to the number of hospitals which submitted SCBU inpatient data in 1978.
The actual number of SCBUs is not held centrally.
Figure of numbers of cots are average numbers of beds available daily throughout the year.
Details of the numbers of combined special and intensive care units and the numbers of cots available as at March 1980 were given by the Department to the Social Services Committee and have since been published in Volume V (pp. 96–97) of its Second Report, which is available in the Library of the House. The provision of intensive care for babies is a regional specialty and the figures, therefore. relate to English regional health authorities.