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Mr. Boyes

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report the name and location of all National Health Service hospitals that have been closed by year since 1979.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

[pursuant to his reply, 9 July 1984]: For information up to December 1983, I refer the hon. Member to my reply to he hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (mr. Dobson) on 2 May, at columns 160–66. A list of hospital closures so far in 1984 follows in table 1 and a list of building schemes over £5 million completed during 1984 follows in table 2.

Table 1—Hospital closures 1984 (up to March)
Region Area/District Hospital
Northern Northumberland Stannington Children's Hospital
Yorkshire Wakefield Snapethorpe Hospital
Grimsby Springfield Hospital

Region Area/District Hospital
Trent Central Debdale Hall Recovery
Nottinghamshire Home
North-East Thames Tower Hamlets Mildmay Mission
Hospital
Waltham Forest Lugano Nursing Home
Oxford Milton Keynes Westbury Maternity
Home
Oxfordshire Longworth
South Western Somerset Wellington Maternity
Home
West Midlands Herefordshire Tupsley Hospital
Bromsgrove and Blackwell Recovery
Redditch Hospital
North Staffordshire Biddulph Grange
Orthopaedic Hospital
North Staffordshire Leek Memorial
Hospital
North Staffordshire Lymewood Hospital
North Staffordshire Westcliffe Hospital
Mersey Liverpool Newsham General
Hospital

Region Area/District Hospital
Liverpool Princes Park Hospital
North Western Wigan Ashton Hospital

Table 2—Schemes over £5 million with completion dates between 1
January 1984 and 31 December 1984
Region Project/scheme Actual or estimated completion
Northern Furness (Barrow) DGH Scheme 1 Phase 1 12 January 1984 A
Northern Royal Victoria Infirmary Scheme 1 Phase 4 20 April 1984 A
Trent Lincoln County Phase 1 20 October 1984 E
NW Thames Watford (Shrodells Wing) Phase 3 17 February 1984 A
NE Thames Broomfield Phase 5 October 1984 E
NE Thames Colchester DGH Phase 2 October 1984 E
Mersey Halton DGH Phase 2 18 August 1984 E
Number of schemes = 7.