§ Mr. Corbynasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the average daily number of acute beds occupied during 1982 for each district health authority.
§ Mr. John PattenThe requested information is given in the table. Bed occupancy figures are based on a midnight count and do not therefore reflect the use of beds by patients who do not stay overnight.
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Number of persons on in-patient waiting list District health authority Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as occupied during 1982 Northern Regional Health Authority Hartlepool 229 North Tees 292 South Tees 708 East Cumbria 319 South Cumbria 313 West Cumbria 236 Darlington 288 Durham 300 North West Durham 250 South West Durham 198 Northumberland 516 Gateshead 349 Newcastle 1,535 North Tyneside 283 South Tyneside 284 Sunderland 643 Yorkshire Regional Health Authority Hull 734 East Yorkshire 322 National Health Service and how many patients were treated in each of the years 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1982 and 1983.
§ Mr. John Patten[pursuant to his reply, 30 July, c. 104]: I regret that figures are not readily available on a comparable basis for all the years requested. Information as available is given in the table.
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District health authority Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as occupied during 1982 Grimsby 291 Scunthorpe 276 Northallerton 179 York 505 Scarborough 305 Harrogate 430 Bradford 837 Airedale 334 Calderdale 403 Huddersfield 410 Dewsbury 295 Leeds Western 1,196 Leeds Eastern 980 Wakefield 444 Pontefract 280 Trent Regional Health Authority North Derbyshire 374 South Derbyshire 796 Leicestershire 1,342 North Lincolnshire 511 South Lincolnshire 451 Bassetlaw 157 Central Nottinghamshire 483 Nottingham 1,281 Barnsley 336 Doncaster 507 Rotherham 353 Sheffield 1,519
District health authority Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as occupied during 1982 East Anglian Regional Health Authority Cambridge 603 Peterborough 461 West Suffolk 353 East Suffolk 631 Norwich 918 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 330 West Norfolk and Wisbech 233 Huntingdon 120 North West Thames Regional Health Authority North Bedfordshire 368 South Bedfordshire 329 North Hertfordshire 387 East Hertfordshire 295 North West Hertfordshire 354 South West Hertfordshire 327 Barnet 837 Harrow 467 Hillingdon 812 Hounslow and Spelthorne 756 Ealing 330 Brent 423 Paddington 711 Hammersmith and Fulham 583 Victoria 651 North East Thames Regional Health Authority Basildon and Thurrock 515 Mid Essex 362 North East Essex 603 West Essex 458 Southend 523 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 1,052 Hampstead 614 Bloomsbury 1,507 Islington 599 City and Hackney 1,002 Newham 539 Tower Hamlets 760 Enfield 468 Haringey 602 Redbridge 360 Waltham Forest 740 South East Thames Regional Health Authority Brighton 823 Eastbourne 322 Hastings 321 South East Kent 442 Canterbury and Thanet 626 Dartford and Gravesham 434 Maidstone 289 Medway 418 Tunbridge Wells 599 Bexley 285 Greenwich 705 Bromley 640 West Lambeth 727 Camberwell 770 Lewisham and North Southwark 1,154 526W
District health authority Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as occupied during 1982 South West Thames Regional Health Authority North West Surrey 379 West Surrey and North East Hants 328 South West Surrey 462 Mid Surrey 328 East Surrey 369
District health authority Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as occupied during 1982 Chichester 328 Mid Downs 388 Worthing 405 Croydon 473 Kingston and Esher 434 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 324 Wandsworth 887 Merton and Sutton 628 Wessex Regional Health Authority East Dorset 879 West Dorset 305 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 770 Southampton and South West Hampshire 983 Winchester 291 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 377 Salisbury 332 Swindon 348 Bath 841 Isle of Wight 208 Oxford Regional Health Authority East Berkshire 648 West Berkshire 693 Aylesbury 471 Wycombe 326 Milton Keynes 14 Kettering 328 Northampton 558 Oxfordshire 1,266 South Western Regional Health Authority Bristol and Weston 936 Frenchay 434 Southmead 496 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 532 Exeter 692 North Devon 223 Plymouth 740 Torbay 542 Cheltenham 385 Gloucester 620 Somerset 762 527W
District Health Authority Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as occupied during 1982 West Midlands Regional Health Authority Bromsgrove and Redditch 334 Herefordshire 331 Kidderminster and District 162 Worcester and District 406 Shropshire 870 Mid Staffordshire 277 North Staffordshire 859 South East Staffordshire 255 Rugby 147 North Warwickshire 212 South Warwickshire 367 Central Birmingham 915 East Birmingham 629 North Birmingham 394 South Birmingham 683 West Birmingham 650 Coventry 763 Dudley 596 Sandwell 394 Solihull 182 Walsall 353 Wolverhampton 616 528W
District Health Authority Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as occupied during 1982 Mersey Regional Health Authority Chester 322 Crewe 359 Halton 25 Macclesfield 299 Warrington 390 Liverpool 1,840 St. Helens and Knowsley 542 North Sefton 306 South Sefton 936 Wirral 928 North Western Regional Health Authority Lancaster 344 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 734 Preston 584 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 552 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 422 West Lancashire 386 Chorley and South Ribble 48 Bolton 469 Bury 319 North Manchester 777 Central Manchester 755 South Manchester 1,142 Oldham 304
District Health Authority Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as occupied during 1982 Rochdale 337 Salford 756 Stockport 602 Tameside and Glossop 346 Trafford 296 Wigan 425
Hospital Average daily number of acute* beds recorded as occupied during 1982 Special Health Authorities and Boards of Governors The Hospitals for Sick Children 353 The National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases 293 Moorfields Eye Hospital 130 The Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudsley Hospital 47 The National Heart and Chest Hospitals 400 The Royal Marsden Hospital 265 Hammersmith Hospital 386 Queen Charlotte's Hospital for Women 95 *All specialties except geriatrics, units for younger disabled, GP maternity, obstetrics, mental handicap, mental illness.