§ Mrs. Ann Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many maternity beds are provided for the use of general practitioners by each district health authority in England; and what is the length of stay allowed following delivery of patients.
§ Mr. John Patten[pursuant to his reply, 15 February 1984, c. 232]: The number of GP maternity beds in each district health authority in England is given in the following table.
The length of stay following delivery will vary depending on the needs of the mother and baby.
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NHS Hospitals in England—1982 Average Daily Number of Available GP Maternity Beds District health authority Beds Region—Northern RHA Hartlepool 4 North Tees 13 South Tees 37 East Cumbria 12 South Cumbria 27 West Cumbria 10 Darlington — Durham — North West Durham — South West Durham — Northumberland 43 Gateshead 6 Newcastle — North Tyneside — South Tyneside — Sunderland — REGIONAL TOTAL 152 Region—Yorkshire RHA Hull 1 East Yorkshire 62 Grimsby 24 Scunthorpe 46 Northallerton — York 14 Scarborough 12 Harrogate 23 Bradford 9 Airedale 20 Calderdale 10 Huddersfield — Dewsbury — Leeds Western 16 Leeds Eastern — Wakefleld — Pontefract 12 REGIONAL TOTAL 248 Region—Trent RHA North Derbyshire 51 South Derbyshire 83 Leicestershire 98 North Lincolnshire 23 South Lincolnshire 14 Bassetlaw — Central Nottinghamshire 20 Nottingham — Barnsley 14 Doncaster 18 Rotherham 6 Sheffield — REGIONAL TOTAL 327 429W
District health authority Beds Region—East Anglian RHA Cambridge — Peterborough 12 West Suffolk 13 East Suffolk 27 Norwich 33 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 14 West Norfolk and Wisbech — Huntingdon 22 REGIONAL TOTAL 121 Region—North West Thames RHA North Bedfordshire 6 South Bedfordshire — North Hertfordshire 6 East Hertfordshire — North West Hertfordshire 9 South West Hertfordshire 12 Barnet — Harrow .— Hillingdon — Hounslow and Spelthorne — Ealing — Brent — Paddington — Hammersmith and Fulham — Victoria — REGIONAL TOTAL 33 Region—North East Thames RHA Basildon and Thurrock 5 Mid Essex 28 North East Essex 49 West Essex 13 Southend — Barking, Havering and Brentwood 2 Hampstead — Bloomsbury — Islington 6 City and Hackney — Newham — Tower Hamlets — Enfield 11 Haringey — Redbridge — Waltham Forest — REGIONAL TOTAL 114 Region—South East Thames RHA Brighton — Eastbourne 8 Hastings 6 South East Kent — Canterbury and Thanet 1 Dartford and Gravesham 1 Maidstone 20 Medway — Tunbridge Wells 34 Bexley 8 Greenwich — Bromely — West Lambeth — Camberwell — Lewisham and North Southwark — REGIONAL TOTAL 77 430W
District health authority Beds Region-South West Thames RHA North West Surrey 30 West Surrey and North East Hants 4 South West Surrey 10 Mid Surrey 5 East Surrey 11 Chichester — Mid Downs 21 Worthing — Croydon 1 Kingston and Esher — Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton — Wandsworth — Merton and Sutton — REGIONAL TOTAL 81 Region—Wessex RHA East Dorset 6 West Dorset 12 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 61 Southampton and South West Hampshire 56 Winchester 12 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 22 Salisbury 8 Swindon 2 Bath and West Wiltshire 103 Isle of Wight — REGIONAL TOTAL 281 Region—Oxford RHA Regional Management — East Berkshire — West Berkshire 54 Aylesbury 18 Wycombe 31 Milton Keynes 36 Kettering 20 Northampton 12 Oxfordshire 46 REGIONAL TOTAL 216 Region—South Western RHA Bristol and Weston 31 Frenchay 10 Southmead 16 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 43 Exeter 47 North Devon 19 Plymouth 43 Torbay 33 Cheltenham 8 Gloucester 57 Somerset 52 REGIONAL TOTAL 359 Region—West Midlands RHA Bromsgrove and Redditch 12 Herefordshire 10 Kidderminster and District 22 Worcester and District 29 Shropshire 70 Mid Staffordshire 28 North Staffordshire 30 South East Staffordshire 14 Rugby — North Warwickshire 10 South Warwickshire 11 Central Birmingham 20 East Birmingham —
District health authority Beds North Birmingham 28 South Birmingham — West Birmingham — Coventry 21 Dudley 63 Sandwell 5 Solihull 3 Walsall 11 Wolverhampton 23 REGIONAL TOTAL 410 Region—Mersey RHA Chester 2 Crewe 20 Halton 18 Macclesfield 11 Warrington — Liverpool — St. Helens and Knowsley — North Sefton — South Sefton — Wirral 2 REGIONL TOTAL 52 Region—North Western RHA Lancaster 2 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 17 Preston 9 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 55 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 14 West Lancashire —' Chorley and South Ribble 23 Bolton 1 Bury 5 North Manchester 5 Central Manchester — South Manchester — Oldham 3 Rochdale — Salford — Stockport 15 Tameside and Glossop 14 Trafford 6 Wigan 33 REGIONAL TOTAL 203 ENGLAND TOTAL 2,675 Note:
Discrepancies are due to rounding.
—Denotes Nil or less than 0.5.