§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the hospital closures between May 1979 and December 1983 giving in each case the number of beds involved, the date, the district and the region.
§ Mr. Kenneth Clarke[pursuant to his reply, 13 April 1984, c. 412]: Information available centrally on complete hospital closures follows in table 1.
Information available centrally on building schemes over £5 million completed during this period is in table 2.
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Region and Area/District Hospital Number of Beds Date Approved North Derbyshire Ashgate Annex E 43 June 1983 Leicestershire Zachary Merton Recovery Home 92 June 1983 East Anglian Cambridgeshire Grange Maternity Unit, Cambridge 10 March 1980 Norfolk Stow Hall Hospital, Norfolk 40 November 1980 Cambridgeshire March Maternity Home 10 April 1981 Cambridge Mill Road Maternity 117 February 1983 Peterborough Butterfield 12 March 1983 Huntingdon Huntingdon County 57 September 1983 East Suffolk St. Helens 61 September 1983 Norwich Home Place Convalescent Home 32 December 1983 Norwich Longacre Maternity Home 12 December 1983 North West Thames Barnet St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Barnet 40 June 1979 Barnet Orme Lodge, Barnet 22 December 1979 Barnet Stanmore cottage Hospital 14 December 1979 Hertfordshire Tolmers park Hospital, Hertfordshire 67 January 1980 Bedfordshire Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Children's Annexe 61 July 1980 Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster St. Columba's Hospital 27 August 1980 Bedfordshire Daneswood Convalescent Home 44 March 1981 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Temple Hill House 18 March 1981 Brent Leamington Park 95 August 1983 Barnet West Hendon 134 September 1983 North Bedfordshire Park Hospital 38 December 1983 North East Thames Camden and Islington Garrett Anderson Maternity Home 32 September 1979 City and East London London Jewish Hospital 128 February 1980 Camden and Islington Thomas Barlow Home 24 July 1980 Camden and Islington Cromwell Lodge 29 November 1980 Essex Waltham Abbey War Memorial Hospital 21 December 1980 Enfield and Haringey Bearsted Memorial Hospital 38 December 1980 City and East London Queen Mary's Hospital, Newham 112 October 1981 City and East London Aldersbrook Hospital 55 October 1981 Barking and Haringey St. Faith's Hospital 293 October 1981 City and East London St. Mary's Hospital, Newham 64 October 1981 Camden and Islington City of London Maternity Hospital 86 April 1982 Camden and Islington Whittington Home 26 April 1982 Enfield Enfield War Memorial Hospital 44 October 1982 North East Essex Clacton Maternity 18 February 1983 North East Essex Essex Hall 154 July 1983 Bloomsbury Royal National Orthopaedic 96 October 1983 Haringey Prince of Wales 115 November 1983 South East Thames West Lambeth Holmhurst Hospital 24 December 1979 Hastings Bexhill Convalescent Home 78 October 1980 Canterbury and Thanet Princess Mary's Hospital, Margate 146 February 1980 South East Kent Dover Eye Unit 34 December 1980 Dartford and Gravesham Joyce Green Hospital 22 May 1982 Tunbridge Wells Mawsell House, Tunbridge Wells 26 December 1982 Lewisham and Southwark St. John's 36 June 1983 Brighton Newhaven Valley 24 June 1983 Camberwell St. Giles 150 August 1983 Tunbridge Wells Hawkenbury 30 July 1983 South West Thames Mid Surrey Schiff Hospital, Surrey 84 December 1979 Mid Surrey Queen Elizabeth House 32 May 1980 Wandsworth St. Benedict's Hospital 213 September 1980 East Surrey Clerks Croft Hospital, Surrey 90 September 1980 Mid Surrey Cuddington Hospital 136 September 1980 East Surrey Smallfield Hospital 190 September 1980 East Surrey East Surrey Hospital 78 September 1980 East Surrey Caterham Main Hospital 23 September 1980 East Surrey Horley Hospital 16 September 1980 Merton and Sutton Wimbledon Hospital 57 October 1981 Croydon Waddon Hospital 80 October 1983 Wandsworth South London Hospital for Women 172 November 1983 Wessex Dorset Capesthome Children's Unit, Dorset 22 May 1979 Dorset Firs Maternity Home,Dorset 14 July 1980 Dorset Hahneman Convalescent Home,Dorset 32 September 1980 Hampshire Winchfield Hospital 55 January 1981
Region and Area/District Hospital Number of Beds Date Approved Wiltshire St. Martin's Hospital, 165 April 1981 Salisbury Fordingbridge Cottage 22 September 1983 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Sandy Point 57 November 1983 Oxford Berkshire Peppard Hospital, 136 November 1979 Oxfordshire Cowley Road Hospital 172 November 1979 Oxfordshire St. Mary's Hospital 30 July 1981 East Berkshire Farnham Park Rehabilitation Centre 55 November 1983 Oxfordshire Neithrop and Pines 64 December 1983 West Berkshire Henley War Memorial 25 December 1983 South Western Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Perranporth Hospital 31 September 1982 Cheltenham Holm Hospital 66 March 1980 Plymouth Devonport Hospital 132 October 1980 Plymouth Alexander Maternity Home 21 March 1983 Plymouth Greenbank 220 March 1983 Frenchay Leigh Court 133 June 1983 Frenchay Wendover Maternity 16 August 1983 West Midlands Staffordshire Groundslow Hospital 118 June1980 Staffordshire Standon Hall Hospital 79 June 1980 Hereford and Worcester Stretton Sugwas Hospital 44 July 1980 Hereford and Worcester Holme Lacy Hospital 84 November 1980 Wolverhampton Queen Victoria Nursing Institute 20 May 1981 Warwickshire St. Mary's Hospital, Harborough Magna 42 October 1981 Worcester and District South Bank Nursing Home 23 April 1982 Shropshire Ludlow and District Hospital 21 September 1982 Dudley The Limes 30 December 1983 Dudley Prestwood 135 December 1983 Mersey Chester Barrowmore Hospital, Chester 118 June 1979 Wirral St. James Hospital 75 July 1979 Wirral Thingwall Hospital 48 July 1979 Wirral Birkenhead General Hospital 181 July 1979 Chester Davenham Hospital, Northwich 32 October 1979 Wirral Highfield Maternity Hospital 47 February 1980 Wirral Wallasey Hospital for Women 31 May 1980 Liverpool Liverpool Psychiatric Day Hospital 30 September 1980 Wirral Victoria Central Hospital, Surgical Unit 95 January 1981 Wirral Leasowe Hospital 123 January 1981 Sefton Fleetwood Road Hospital 54 October 1981 Crewe Wrenbury Hostel 17 December 1981 Chester Tadley Hostel 17 December 1981 Macclesfield Collar House, Prestbury 42 December 1982 Wirral Cleaver 132 June 1983 North Western Bolton Wilkinson Hospital 52 March 1980 Oldham Strinesdale Hospital 44 August 1980 Wigan Pemberton Day Hospital — october 1980 Lancashire Deepdale Hospital 100 November 1980 Lancashire The Willows, Preston 23 November 1980 Lancashire Lostock Hall Continuation Hospital 41 December 1980 Trafford Urmston Cottage Hospital 22 July 1981 Stockport Marple Dale Hospital, Stockport 94 January 1982 Bolton Havercroft Free Discharge Unit, Bolton 14 February 1982 Thameside and Glossop Apsland Maternity Home, Salford — June 1982 North Manchester Memorial Jewish 94 December 1983 Queen Charlotte's Board of Governors Convalescent Home, St. Leonards on Sea 42 November 1983 Notes:
- (1) Temporary closures are not included.
- (2) Dates on which closures are implemented are not recorded centrally.
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Table 2 Schemes over £5 million with building completion dates between 1 May 1979 and 31 December 1983 Region Project/Scheme Beds in scheme Completion Northern North Tyneside Scheme 1 Phase 1 334 13 December 1983 Northern South Cleveland General Scheme Phase 1 — 17 March 1981 Yorkshire Grimsby DGH Phase 1 472 24 December 1982 Yorkshire Leeds General Infirmary Phase 1 291 24 September 1982 Trent Chesterfield DGH Phase 1 448 4 November 1983
Region Project/Scheme Beds in scheme Completion Trent Glenfield DGH Phase 1 200 28 November 1983 Trent Queens Medical Centre Development Phase 2 1,003 August 1980 Trent Rotherham DGH Phase 2 178 6 May 1983 East Anglian Great Yarmouth DGH Phase 1 248 3 August 1981 East Anglian Hinchingbrooke Hospital Huntingdon Phase 3 227 10 January 1983 East Anglian Ipswich Phase 1 Heath Road Wing 308 13 April 1983 East Anglian Kings Lynn Phase 2 481 31 August 1979 North East Thames London Hospital Clinical Building Phase 1 — 8 June 1981 North East Thames Newham Hospital Phase 1 293 8 September 1982 South East Thames Maidstone DGH Phase 1 262 20 April 1983 South East Thames Orpington Phase 1 308 19 December 1983 South West Thames Croydon/Mayday DGH 330 10 December 1982 South West Thames Redhill DGH 224 29 November 1982 Wessex Southampton General Maternity Department 218 31 December 1979 Wessex Southampton General Phase 5 West Ward Block 521 2 December 1981 Oxford Milton Keynes DGH Phase 1 265 12 September 1983 South Western Derriford Phase 1 355 28 February 1980 West Midlands Dudley DGH (Russells Hall) Phase 3A 414 22 August 1983 West Midlands Stafford DGH Phase 4 Main Hospital 297 22 November 1982 Mersey Arrowe Park New DGH 1,007 10 April 1981 Mersey Macclesfield Nucleus Development 208 24 June 1983 Mersey West Cheshire Phase 1 160 18 January 1982 Mersey Royal Liverpool Phases 2/3 820 31 December 1979 North Western Hope Hospital Salford Phase 1 83 13 May 1983 North Western Preston New Hospital Phase 1 — 27 June 1980 North Western Preston New Hospital Phase 2 700 28 August 1980 Number of schemes=31