HC Deb 08 March 1984 vol 55 cc686-92W
Mr. Dobson

asked 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.

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

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

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

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.

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