§ 44. Mr. Harveyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many community hospitals have been opened in Britain since 1979.
§ Mrs. CurrieComprehensive information is not available centrally in the form requested. Health building returns show that two community hospital schemes have been completed since 1979 and that nine more are due to be completed by 1989. This almost certainly under-estimates the number of schemes planned or brought into use because202W
- (a) full details of all health authority capital schemes costing between £1 million and £5 million have been collected centrally only since January 1986;
- (b) community hospitals established by the adaption of existing premises with a capital cost of less than £1 million will not appear in health building returns.
My right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales are responsible for community hospitals elsewhere in Great Britain.