HC Deb 25 February 1983 vol 37 cc559-60W
Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many low birthweight babies needing intensive care were refused it because of a shortage of (a) cots and (b) trained nurses in each region;

(2) what records are kept in his Department of the number of mothers in premature labour sent to district hospitals without neonatal intensive care facilities; and how many of their babies die soon after birth or survive handicapped.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

The data are not available centrally.

London borough are not held centrally. The whole-time equivalent number of social workers by category for each London borough at 30 September 1981 is as follows: