Hospital Beds

HC Deb 07 March 1984 vol 55 cc628-31W

Mr. Jim Callaghan

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many hospital beds per population there are in each health area in England

Mr. John Patten

[pursuant to his reply, 13 February 1984, c. 96]: The latest available information is given in the following table. This does not include beds in hospitals managed by the boards of governors and special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals. The figures are not a true indication of the level of service available in different districts because many patients are treated outside their district of residence, and more specialised services may be concentrated as a matter of policy in hospitals serving a number of districts.

District health authority	Available beds per 1,000 population
North West Thames RHA
North Bedfordshire	5.1
South Bedfordshire	6.0
North Hertfordshire	4.7
East Hertfordshire	2.8
North West Hertfordshire	12.5
South West Hertfordshire	9.2
Barnet	9.3
Harrow	4.7
Hillingdon	6.6
Hounslow and Spelthorne	5.2
Ealing	6.1
Brent	8.9
Paddington	9.8
Hammersmith and Fulham	6.5
Victoria	21.5
North East Thames RHA
Basildon and Thurrock	7.0
Mid Essex	4.6
North East Essex	10.8
West Essex	4.7
Southend	6.1
Barking, Havering and Brentwood	6.6
Hampstead	18.5
Bloomsbury	19.1
Islington	7.2
City and Hackney	10.0
Newham	4.2
Tower Hamlets	9.9
Enfield	4.1
Haringey	5.7
Redbridge	7.2
Waltham Forest	14.1
South West Thames RHA
North West Surrey	9.7
West Surrey and North East Hants	6.2
South West Surrey	5.3

District health authority	Available beds per 1,000 population
Mid Surrey	15.3
East Surrey	13.4
Chichester	7.3
Mid Downs	6.2
Worthing	4.0
Croydon	9.1
Kingston and Esher	8.7
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton	4.3
Wandsworth	13.0
Merton and Sutton	7.4
South East Thames RHA
Brighton	6.0
Eastbourne	7.7
Hastings	6.4
South East Kent	4.2
Canterbury and Thanet	9.3
Dartford and Gravesham	11.0
Maidstone	8.9
Medway	3.1
Tunbridge Wells	11.4
Bexley	7.3
Greenwich	7.4
Bromley	8.0
West Lambeth	13.2
Camberwell	6.0
Lewisham and North Southwark	6.8
Northern RHA
Hartlepool	6.7
North Tees	5.5
South Tees	6.9
East Cumbria	8.9
South Cumbria	5.1
West Cumbria	7.6
Darlington	10.6
Durham	4.8
North West Durham	7.8
South West Durham	11.7
Northumberland	12.8
Gateshead	6.4
Newcastle	12.5
North Tyneside	3.6
South Tyneside	5.1
Sunderland	7.8
Yorkshire RHA
Hull	6.1
East Yorkshire	10.6
Grimsby	5.0
Scunthorpe	4.8
Northallerton	4.1
York	11.3
Scarborough	4.9
Harrowgate	7.4
Bradford	8.1
Airedale	8.3
Calderdale	7.1
Huddersfield	11.2
Dewsbury	4.6
Leeds Western	9.2
Leeds Eastern	7.7
Wakefield	16.3
Pontefract	5.1
Trent RHA
North Derbyshire	4.6
South Derbyshire	7.6
Leicestershire	6.1
North Lincolnshire	10.1
South Lincolnshire	6.2
Bassetlaw	4.1
Central Nottinghamshire	6.9
Nottingham	6.6
Barnsley	4.3

District health authority	Available beds per 1,000 population
Doncaster	6.7
Rotherham	4.9
Sheffield	9.0
East Anglian RHA
Cambridge	7.3
Peterborough	6.1
West Suffolk	5.7
East Suffolk	8.6
Norwich	8.5
Great Yarmouth and Waveney	5.3
West Norfolk and Wisbech	4.6
Huntingdon	2.6
North Western RHA
Lancaster	19.9
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde	5.5
Preston	18.3
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley	9.9
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale	10.6
West Lancashire	7.9
Chorley and South Ribble	2.0
Bolton	5.0
Bury	4.6
North Manchester	13.2
Central Manchester	9.9
South Manchester	13.2
Oldham	4.5
Rochdale	4.1
Salford	12.2
Stockport	6.3
Tameside and Glossop	3.8
Trafford	3.8
Wigan	4.7
South Western RHA
Bristol and Weston	6.2
Frenchay	13.1
Southmead	8.7
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	6.4
Exeter	12.3
North Devon	5.1
Plymouth	6.9
Torbay	4.8
Cheltenham	4.6
Gloucester	7.5
Somerset	8.8
Wessex RHA
East Dorset	5.1
West Dorset	9.0
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	5.9
Southampton and South West Hampshire	7.6
Winchester	4.4
Basingstoke and North Hampshire	7.8
Salisbury	8.0
Swindon	6.1
Bath and West Wiltshire	7.6
Isle of Wight	7.4
Oxford RHA
East Berkshire	4.9
West Berkshire	6.5
Aylesbury	12.0
Wycombe	2.8
Milton Keynes	1.6
Kettering	3.7
Northampton	7.2
Oxfordshire	6.1
West Midlands RHA
Bromsgrove and Redditch	6.9
Herefordshire	7.4
Kidderminster and District	12.2
Worcester and District	7.1

District health authority	Available beds per 1,000 population
Shropshire	6.8
Mid Staffordshire	4.3
North Staffordshire	7.4
South East Staffordshire	5.9
Rugby	3.8
North Warwickshire	7.0
South Warwickshire	8.7
Central Birmingham	9.3
East Birmingham	4.9
South Birmingham	10.7
West Birmingham	10.8
Coventry	6.1
Dudley	5.1
Sandwell	2.8
Solihull	5.7
Walsall	6.1
Wolverhampton	5.9
North Birmingham	10.0
Mersey RHA
Chester	10.4
Crewe	7.3
Halton	3.2
Macclesfield	10.7
Warrington	16.1
Liverpool	7.4
St. Helens and Knowsley	7.2
North Sefton	11.3
South Sefton	9.5
Wirral	6.5