HC Deb 08 December 1983 vol 50 cc228-9W
Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many hospitals in each region allow parents unrestricted access to their children in hospital;

(2) in how many hospitals in each region children are being nursed in adult wards.

Mr. John Patten

This information is not routinely collected centrally, but the survey of facilities for parents of children in hospital carried out in 1982 by the National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital, and funded by the Department, records for each NHS region the total number of hospital wards admitting more than 50 children per year, the number which are either adult wards or annexes to adult wards, and the percentage of all wards allowing parents unrestricted access.

Region Total number of wards Adult wards or annexes Percentage unrestricted access
Northern 61 12 21
Yorkshire 65 14 35
Trent 70 16 50
East Anglian 34 20 32
Region Total number of wards Adult wards or annexes Percentage unrestricted access
North West Thames 55 11 82
North East Thames 54 18 48
South East Thames 64 19 64
South West Thames 42 12 62
Wessex 53 25 55
Oxford 48 25 29
South Western 47 15 47
West Midlands 105 34 52
Mersey 67 10 55
North Western 103 22 35
ALL WARDS 868 253 49

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