§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give for each regional health authority and for England as a whole the number of authorised amenity beds, the average daily number of occupied amenity beds, the number of discharges and deaths of amenity patients and the income under section 63 of the National Health Service Act 1977 for each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Hayhoe:The information requested is given in the tables.
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Region* 1979 1980 1981 *1982 1983 1984 Trent 272 299 265 202 279 124 East Anglian 125 119 108 85 71 73 North West Thames* 467 580 743 375 360 378 North East Thames* 1,180 470 547 463 283 370 South East Thames* 271 277 152 166 235 1,017 South West Thames* 512 613 394 640 462 497 Wessex 411 429 412 338 293 276 Oxford 247 218 266 206 171 158 South Western 358 337 204 269 264 196 West Midlands 233 255 247 205 230 181 Mersey 657 645 595 489 447 449 North Western 735 1,128 1,375 879 723 628 Special Health Authorities and Boards of Governors* 475 530 542 492 501 363 England† 7,872 8,020 7,972 6,605 6,044 6,245 * Because of NHS restructuring in 1982 the regional figures are not strictly comparable over the whole period.
† Regional figures may not sum exactly to the England total because of rounding.
Income under section 63 of the National Health Service Act 1977 Table 4 Region 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 £ £ £ £ £ £ Northern 11,488 13,345 17,177 22,996 27,118 26,997 Yorkshire 32,433 34,461 36,607 62,102 66,623 55,746 Trent 25,916 22,638 16,962 27,239 21,728 18,727 East Anglian 3,099 2,308 3,167 6,075 4,235 4,564 North West Thames* 10,356 15,769 8,495 *17,205 24,180 18,023 North East Thames* 17,368 14,414 14,794 *17,379 26,082 18,285 South East Thames* 9,936 7,540 6,118 *15,631 27,146 34,319 South West Thames* 23,427 21,334 17,040 *35,197 27,459 35,870 Wessex 14,443 29,533 40,150 33,532 28,096 26,671 Oxford 8,326 7,367 9,006 16,063 12,278 10,599 South Western 11,476 12,156 8,015 20,527 17,281 16,630 West Midlands 7,552 8,626 6,977 11,441 14,714 12,171 Mersey 16,779 17,531 18,781 23,494 25,604 23,607 North Western 22,203 25,756 29,330 36,956 46,013 33,300 London SHAs* 8,833 5,940 8,680 *22,850 20,780 10,060 Total (England) 223,635 238,718 241,299 368,687 389,337 345,569 * Because of NHS restructuring in 1982 the regional figures are not strictly comparable over the whole period.