HC Deb 15 March 1983 vol 39 c149W
Dr. Mawhinney

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many geriatric patients were treated in National Health Service hospitals in the years 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982, respectively.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

The number of individual patients treated in National Health Service hospitals is not recorded centrally. The available information is given in the table. Figures for 1982 are not yet available centrally.

NHS Hospitals in England
Thousands
1979 1980 1981
Discbarges and deaths of in-patients in specialty of geriatric medicine 239 264 280
Out-patient attendances in specialty of geriatric medicine 224 255 270

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