§ 56. Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many hospital beds have been declared closed in each health board area since April 1979; and what were the comparable figures in the previous five years.
Health Board Annual net decrease* in the total bed complement for each Health Board area, in the year ending 31 March 1976 31 March 1977 31 March 1978 31 March 1979 31 March 1980 Approved Bed Complement 31 March 1980 Argyll and Clyde 35 134 * [+62] 6 22 4,646 Ayrshire and Arran 27 *[+20] * [+29] — 15 2,813 Borders 98 *[+19] — 24 *[+17] 944 Dumfries and Galloway * [+49] 13 3 52 * [+6] 1,739 Fife 47 *[+52] * [+8] 99 42 2,918 Forth Valley * [+29] * [+7] 95 — 15 3,789 Grampian 36 4 * [+20] 51 358 5,474 Greater Glasgow 381 645 200 *[+44] 106 15,032 Highland * [+2] 53 34 * [+8] 47 2,447 Lanarkshire *[+113] *[+11] *[+351] 413 14 5,872 Lothian 14 267 99 *[+10] 21 8,955 Orkney — 1 * [+6] — * [+2] 131 Shetland — — — — — 160 Tayside 183 118 103 7 27 5,800 Western Isles — — — — 3 212 SCOTLAND 628 1,126 58 590 645 60,932 * The figure given in square brackets is the total net increase in beds in the relevant year.