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Mr. John Patten
The following table, derived from the SBH 212 return of institutions registered with English district health authorities under the Nursing Homes Act 1975, gives the number of places for the elderly in such institutions, by regional and district health authority, as at 31 December 1982. Similar information was not collected centrally before the introduction of the SBH 212 return in 1982, and figures for 1983 are not yet available.
| Number of places for the elderly in nursing homes registered under the Nursing Homes Act 1975 as at 31 December 1982 |
| Regional Health Authority and District Health Authority |
No. of places |
| 1. Northern |
244 |
| Darlington |
154 |
| Durham |
34 |
| East Cumbria |
— |
| Gateshead |
15 |
| Hartlepool |
— |
| Newcastle |
— |
| North Tees |
— |
| North Tyneside |
— |
| Northumberland |
— |
| North West Durham |
— |
| Sunderland |
— |
| South Cumbria |
— |
| South Tees |
41 |
| South Tyneside |
— |
| South West Durham |
— |
| West Cumbria |
— |
| 2. Yorkshire |
797 |
| Airedale |
121 |
| Bradford |
123 |
| Calderdale |
69 |
| Dewsbury |
12 |
| East Yorkshire |
24 |
| Grimsby |
6 |
| Harrogate |
— |
| Huddersfield |
15 |
| Hull |
52 |
| Leeds Eastern |
101 |
| Leeds Western |
80 |
| Northallerton |
58 |
| Pontefract |
— |
| Scarborough |
48 |
| Scunthorpe |
27 |
| Wakefield |
— |
| York |
61 |
| 3. Trent |
1,133 |
| Barasley |
— |
| Bassetlaw |
— |
| Central Nottinghamshire |
38 |
| Doncaster |
12 |
| Leicestershire |
420 |
| North Derbyshire |
96 |
| North Lincolnshire |
312 |
564W
| Regional Health Authority and District Health Authority |
No. of places |
| Nottingham |
— |
| Rotherham |
— |
| Sheffield |
94 |
| South Derbyshire |
85 |
| South Lincolnshire |
76 |
| 4. East Anglian |
522 |
| Cambridge |
6 |
| East Suffolk |
81 |
| Great Yarmouth |
32 |
| Huntingdon |
25 |
| Norwich |
203 |
| Peterborough |
11 |
| West Norfolk and Wisbech |
59 |
| West Suffolk |
105 |
| 5. North West Thames |
789 |
| Barnet |
109 |
| Brent |
13 |
| Ealing |
122 |
| East Hertfordshire |
— |
| Hammersmith and Fulham |
117 |
| Harrow |
13 |
| Hillingdon |
— |
| Hounslow and Spelthorne |
130 |
| North Bedfordshire |
59 |
| North Hertfordshire |
20 |
| North West Hertfordshire |
16 |
| Paddington and North Kensington |
10 |
| South Bedfordshire |
— |
| South West Hertfordshire |
42 |
| Victoria |
138 |
| 6. North East Thames |
716 |
| Barking, Havering and Brentwood |
31 |
| Basildon and Thurrock |
— |
| Bloomsbury |
49 |
| City and Hackney |
77 |
| Enfield |
122 |
| Hampstead |
26 |
| Haringey |
160 |
| Islington |
— |
| Mid-Essex |
53 |
| Newham |
— |
| North East Essex |
61 |
| Redbridge |
32 |
| Southend |
105 |
| Tower Hamlets |
— |
| West Essex |
— |
| 7. South East Thames |
3,158 |
| Bexley |
57 |
| Brighton |
452 |
| Bromley |
208 |
| Camberwell |
— |
| Canterbury and Thanet |
377 |
| Dartford and Gravesham |
18 |
| Eastbourne |
558 |
| Greenwich |
40 |
| Hastings |
700 |
| Lewisham and North Southwark |
39 |
| Maidstone |
85 |
| Medway |
65 |
| South East Kent |
241 |
| Tunbridge Wells |
318 |
| West Lambeth |
— |
| 8. South West Thames |
2,989 |
| Chichester |
464 |
| Croydon |
415 |
| East Surrey |
192 |
| Kingston and Richmond |
91 |
| Merton and Sutton |
197 |
| Mid Downs |
344 |
| Mid Surrey |
20 |
| North West Surrey |
58 |
565W
| Regional Health Authority and District Health Authority |
No. of places |
| Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton |
105 |
| South West Surrey |
265 |
| Wandsworth |
— |
| West Surrey and North East Hants |
69 |
| Worthing |
769 |
| 9. Wessex |
2,053 |
| Basingstoke and North Hampshire |
14 |
| Bath |
269 |
| East Dorset |
853 |
| Isle of Wight |
21 |
| Portsmouth and South East Hants |
340 |
| Salisbury |
96 |
| Southampton and South West Hants |
236 |
| Swindon |
92 |
| West Dorset |
92 |
| Winchester |
40 |
| 10. Oxford |
883 |
| Aylesbury Vale |
34 |
| East Berkshire |
225 |
| Kettering |
— |
| Milton Keynes |
— |
| Northampton |
249 |
| Oxfordshire |
141 |
| West Berkshire |
94 |
| Wycombe |
140 |
| 11. South Western |
1,711 |
| Bristol and Western |
349 |
| Cheltenham and District |
168 |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |
128 |
| Exeter |
32 |
| Frenchay |
98 |
| Gloucester |
92 |
| North Devon |
110 |
| Plymouth |
290 |
| Somerset |
— |
| Southmead |
156 |
| Torbay |
288 |
| 12. West Midlands |
1,281 |
| Bromsgrove and Redditch |
43 |
| Central Birmingham |
11 |
| Coventry |
4 |
| Dudley |
— |
| East Birmingham |
75 |
| Herefordshire |
20 |
| Kidderminster and District |
73 |
| Mid-Staffordshire |
122 |
| North Birmingham |
134 |
| North Staffordshire |
48 |
| North Warwickshire |
— |
| Rugby |
18 |
| Sandwell |
30 |
| Shropshire |
40 |
| Solihull |
16 |
| South Birmingham |
39 |
| South East Staffordshire |
31 |
| South Warwickshire |
139 |
| Walsall |
— |
| West Birmingham |
34 |
| Wolverhampton |
89 |
| Worcester and District |
315 |
| 13. Mersey |
905 |
| Chester |
32 |
| Crewe |
29 |
| Halton |
— |
| Liverpool |
135 |
| Macclesfield |
146 |
| North Sefton |
64 |
| South Sefton |
124 |
| St. Helens and Knowsley |
8 |
| Warrington |
— |
| Wirral |
367 |
566W
| Regional Health Authority and District Health Authority |
No. of places |
| 14. North Western |
1,016 |
| Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley |
93 |
| Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde |
— |
| Bolton |
42 |
| Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale |
— |
| Bury |
86 |
| Central Manchester |
— |
| Chorley and South Ribble |
— |
| Lancaster |
78 |
| North Manchester |
32 |
| Oldham |
— |
| Preston |
89 |
| Rochdale |
77 |
| Salford |
30 |
| South Manchester |
59 |
| Stockport |
288 |
| Tameside and Glossop |
— |
| Trafford |
142 |
| West Lancashire |
— |
| Wigan |
— |
| England (total) |
18,197 |