§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give for the latest available year and for each district and each region (a) the number of authorised pay beds at 31 December, (b) the number of deaths and discharges of private patients and (c) the average daily occupation of pay beds by private patients.
§ Mr. Kenneth Clarke[pursuant to his reply, 27 February 1984, c. 66]: The information requested is given in the tables.
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District Health Authority Number of authorised pay-beds at 31 December 1982 Average daily number of beds occupied by private patients during 1982 Discharges and deaths of private patients during 1982 South Western RHA Bristol and Weston 6 2.5 244 Frenchay 6 3.1 132 Southmead 2 0.1 18 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 13 6.1 221 Exeter 10 1.1 63 North Devon 5 1.2 111 Plymouth 6 2.1 222 Torbay 9 3.3 276 Cheltenham 14 10.4 616 Gloucester 18 7.3 1,053 Somerset 13 6.1 377 Regional Total 102 43.3 3,333 North Western RHA Lancaster 13 5.5 349 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 15 8.6 729 Preston 12 1.2 84 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 9 0.6 42 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 8 1.5 141 West Lancashire 15 5.5 278 Chorley and South Ribble 4 — — Bolton 20 4.3 370 Bury 15 4.1 342 North Manchester 9 2.1 150 Central Manchester 43 20.3 1,723 South Manchester 33 12.1 941 Oldham 5 1.1 109 Rochdale 2 0.3 46 Salford 11 1.0 74 Stockport 5 1.1 139 Tameside and Glossop 2 0.3 37 Trafford 7 2.1 67 Wigan 16 2.2 257 Regional Total 244 73.9 5,878 North West Thames RHA North Bedfordshire 12 3.4 257 South Bedfordshire 9 2.6 173 North Hertfordshire 10 6.5 468 East Hertfordshire 10 5.3 524
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District Health Authority Number of authorised pay-beds at 31 December 1982 Average daily number of beds occupied by private patients during 1982 Discharges and deaths of private patients during 1982 North West Hertfordshire 15 na na South West Hertfordshire 6 2.6 170 Barnet 12 4.9 360 Harrow 13 2.2 138 Hillingdon 32 15.8 1,064 Hounslow and Spelthorne 7 na na Ealing 3 0.1 19 Brent 10 2.4 132 Paddington 65 38.0 2,155 Hammersmith and Fulham 30 24.0 1,127 Victoria 58 34.2 1,696 Regional Total 292 *154.9 *9,348 North East Thames RHA Basildon and Thurrock 11 na na Mid Essex 14 10.3 1,211 North East Essex 9 1.8 132 West Essex 15 8.9 695 Southend 19 12.2 967 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 13 7.7 517 Hampstead 29 25.7 984 Bloomsbury 178 na na Islington 31 3.1 118 City and Hackney 15 na na Newham 2 na na Tower Hamlets 34 15.7 735 Enfield 3 2.1 207 Haringey 10 2.8 165 Redbridge 8 1.7 112 Waltham Forest 7 na na Regional Total 398 *149.4 *8,940 South East Thames RHA Brighton 24 6.0 420 Eastbourne 4 1.0 100 Hastings 6 2.7 247 South East Kent 12 1.8 153 Canterbury and Thanet 29 8.9 839 Dartford and Gravesham 8 1.9 142 Maidstone 7 1.5 119 Medway 8 1.3 142 Tunbridge Wells 39 18.2 1,467 Bexley 10 3.4 235 Greenwich 14 5.6 305 Bromley 24 10.6 640 West Lambeth 38 25.4 958 Camberwell 40 30.8 1,607 Lewisham and North Southwark 69 36.0 1,935 Regional Total 332 155.1 9,309 South West Thames RHA North West Surrey 13 4.9 428 West Surrey and
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District Health Authority Number of authorised pay-beds at 31 December 1982 Average daily number of beds occupied by private patients during 1982 Discharges and deaths of private patients during 1982 North East Hants 11 6.3 749 South West Surrey 5 2.6 137 Mid Surrey 20 5.3 413 East Surrey 23 13.6 910 Chichester 6 2.7 142 Mid Downs 23 12.3 729 Worthing 6 0.6 36 Croydon 12 3.3 321 Kingston and Esher 8 4.9 268 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 12 1.8 94 Wandsworth 20 8.7 379 Merton and Sutton 21 7.9 497 Regional Total 180 74.9 5,103 Wessex RHA East Dorset 14 7.3 423 West Dorset 13 1.5 101 Portsmouth 16 10.9 1,141 South West Hampshire and Southampton 16 6.7 425 Winchester 8 3.0 188 Basingstoke 11 11.0 615 Salisbury 10 2.3 127 Swindon 12 8.5 836 West Wiltshire and Bath 11 3.3 191 Isle of Wight 6 3.9 378 Regional Total 117 58.4 4,425 Oxford RHA East Berkshire 17 4.2 221 West Berkshire 26 17.1 1,575 Aylesbury 32 19.6 691 Wycombe 24 10.2 878 Milton Keynes — — — Kettering 11 6.7 616 Northampton 13 5.9 598 Oxfordshire 57 na na Regional Total 180 *78.8 *5,243 Mersey RHA Chester 8 1.4 89 Crewe 16 6.7 564 Halton — — — Macclesfield 15 1.6 92 Warrington 15 10.5 520 Liverpool 20 6.4 379 St. Helens and Knowsley 15 2.0 106 North Sefton 7 3.4 180 South Sefton 10 2.5 81 Wirral 17 na na Regional Total 12 *43.7 *2,464 West Midlands RHA Bromsgrove and Redditch 6 0.9 61 Herefordshire 4 1.1 56
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District Health Authority Number of authorised pay-beds at 31 December 1982 Average daily number of beds occupied by private patients during 1982 Discharges and deaths of private patients during 1982 Kidderminster and District 6 1.7 135 Worcester and District 20 8.0 673 Shropshire 14 5.9 241 Mid Staffordshire 8 4.0 330 North Staffordshire 16 5.7 420 South East Staffordshire 10 4.6 396 Rugby 5 3.9 279 North Warwickshire 3 1.2 166 South Warwickshire 13 6.2 298 Central Birmingham 67 12.0 645 East Birmingham 3 2.0 138 North Birmingham 9 5.3 304 South Birmingham 12 2.6 121 West Birmingham 10 3.2 393 Coventry 10 2.0 137 Dudley 10 1.9 111 Sandwell 8 1.0 80 Solihull 4 1.1 76 Walsall 11 5.2 469 Wolverhampton 7 0.8 68 Regional Total 256 80.3 5,597 Northern RHA Hartlepool 6 0.8 94 North Tees 7 0.2 18 South Tees 15 2.0 302 East Cumbria 10 3.4 256 South Cumbria 7 1.6 121 West Cumbria 4 0.6 39 Darlington 7 0.6 46 Durham 4 0.2 18 North West Durham 5 0.8 28 South West Durham 3 0.1 7 Northumberland 8 0.7 54 Gateshead 3 0.4 32 Newcastle upon Tyne 9 5.3 337 North Tyneside 2 0.3 19 South Tyneside 4 0.4 26 Sunderland 9 1.1 158 Regional Total 103 18.5 1,555 Trent RHA North Derbyshire 7 0.9 94 South Derbyshire 15 5.0 340 Leicestershire 19 9.1 685 North Lincolnshire 18 5.8 80 South Lincolnshire 11 6.2 418 Bassetlaw 6 1.1 81 Central Nottinghamshire 15 5.9 423 Nottingham 30 14.9 1,400 Barnsley 5 0.5 63 Doncaster 3 1.1 52 Rotherham — — — Sheffield 6 3.4 198 Regional Total 135 53.9 3,834
District Health Authority Number of authorised pay-beds at 31 December 1982 Average daily number of beds occupied by private patients during 1982 Discharges and deaths of private patients during 1982 Yorkshire RHA Hull 2 0.5 37 East Yorkshire 3 1.1 143 Grimsby 7 2.6 142 Scunthorpe 9 2.8 222 Northallerton 7 1.5 105 York 5 1.0 61 Scarborough 6 0.2 12 Harrogate 8 3.9 156 Bradford 34 9.5 825 Airedale 12 7.2 416 Calderdale 24 11.1 671 Huddersfield 10 2.1 115 Dewsbury 6 0.9 45 Leeds Western 29 20.2 811 Leeds Eastern 6 1.6 74 Wakefield 10 1.1 148 Pontefract 4 0.5 25 Regional Total 182 67.8 4,008 East Anglian RHA Cambridge 11 4.5 246 Peterborough 18 10.2 839 West Suffolk 10 5.3 269 East Suffolk 24 11.5 529 Norwich 28 8.9 699 Great Yarmouth 5 2.0 220 West Norfolk and Wisbech 6 3.4 274 Huntingdon 4 1.0 60 Regional Total 106 46.8 3,136 * Estimated na=not yet available.
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District Nurses as at 30 September 1982* Whole-time equivalents Male Female Total Managed population in June 1982 (provisional) (thousands) WTE per 100,000 managed population† 1. Northern RHA 55 1,008 1,062 3,110 34.2 2. Yorkshire RHA 31 1,102 1,133 3,600 31.5 3. Trent RHA 50 1,384 1,434 4,600 31.2 4. East Anglian RHA 26 537 563 1,920 29.4 5. NW Thames RHA 44 926 970 3,450 28.1 6. NE Thames RHA 75 980 1,055 3,730 28.3 7. SE Thames RHA 65 1,199 1,264 3,580 35.3 8. SW Thames RHA 42 898 941 2,950 31.9 9. WessexRHA 18 799 817 2,780 29.4 10. Oxford RHA 18 674 692 2,360 29.3 11. South Western RHA 28 923 950 3,080 30.8 12. West Midlands RHA 46 1,553 1,599 5,180 30.8 13. Mersey RHA 27 747 774 2,440 31.7 14. North Western RHA 60 1,537 1,597 4,020 39.7 Total England 584 14,265 ‡ob/14,849 46,800 31.7 * Includes practical work teachers, state registered nurses, state enrolled nurses with or without district training (DN/MID) dual posts and bank district nurses; nursing officers are excluded.
Boards of Governors and Special Health Authorities Number of authorised pay-beds at 31 December 1982 Average daily number of beds occupied by private patients during 1982 Discharges and deaths of private patients during 1982 The Hospitals for Sick Children 34 22.0 928 The National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases 18 10.0 287 Moorfields Eye Hospital 22 12.4 1,339 The Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudsley Hospital 6 1.0 21 The National Heart and Chest Hospitals 38 18.6 877 The Royal Marsden Hospital 27 19.1 1,019 Hammersmith Hospital 18 12.2 447 Queen Charlotte's Hospital for Women 20 11.5 870 The Eastman Dental Hospital — — — Total 183 106.8 5,788