Hospital Beds (Hansard, 4 February 1987)

§ Mr. Meacher

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give the average number of beds available in National Health Service hospitals in Wales nationally and

Average daily number of available beds
	Acute¹	Geriatric	Mental illness²
	1979	1985	per cent. change	1979	1985	per cent. change	1979	1985	per cent. change
Clwyd	1,179.4	904.6	-23.3	616.7	575.1	-6.7	744.7	657.3	-11.7
Dyfed⁵	883.4	822.7	-6.9	556.5	518.0	-6.9	765.2	577.3	-24.6
Gwent	1,281.9	1,234.8	-3.7	557.2	643.2	+15.4	1,164.0	931.0	-20.0
Gwynedd	563.5	554.3	-1.6	402.9	429.5	+6.6	—	46.5	—
Mid Glamorgan	1,670.2	1,578.1	-5.5	796.0	864.8	+8.6	1,377.7	1,197.0	-13.1
Powys	116.0	55.3	-52.3	247.6	238.0	-3.9	422.0	335.0	-20.6
South Glamorgan	1,678.0	1,586.1	-5.5	448.6	460.6	+ 2.7	678.1	677.9	—
West Glamorgan	1,351.8	1,320.1	-2.3	464.8	465.0	—	390.2	406.6	+4.2
WALES	8,724.2	8,056.0	-7.7	4,090.3	4,194.2	+ 2.5	5,541.9	4,828.6	-12.9

	Mental handicap	Maternity³	All Specialties⁴
	1979	1985	per cent. change	1979	1985	per cent. change	1979	1985	per cent. change
Clwyd	92.0	92.0	—	179.6	144.7	-19.4	3,052.5	2,811.6	-7.9
Dyfed⁵	116.0	103.0	-11.2	119.3	87.9	-26.3	2,564.6	2,237.4	-12.8
Gwent	468.5	421.7	-10.0	175.0	157.2	- 10.2	3,882.6	3,619.4	-6.8
Gwynedd	375.0	333.3	-11.1	97.3	75.9	-22.0	1,569.5	1,610.5	+ 2.6
Mid Glamorgan	586.0	488.3	-16.7	248.8	239.6	-3.7	4,943.4	4,644.2	-6.1
Powys	263.3	209.5	-20.4	40.5	37.0	-8.6	1,265.5	1,057.3	-16.5
South Glamorgan	433.1	411.1	-5.1	159.0	153.7	-3.3	3,583.6	3,546.4	-1.0
West Glamorgan	151.0	142.5	-5.6	150.1	155.0	+ 3.3	2,594.3	2,603.2	+0.3
WALES	2,484.9	2,201.4	-11.4	1,169.6	1,051.0	-10.1	23,456.1	22,130.1	-5.7
¹ Includes medical, surgical and pre-convalescent.
² Includes mental illness, mental illness children, adolescent psychiatry, psycho-geriatric and elderly mentally infirm.
³ Includes obstetrics and GP maternity.
⁴ In addition to the specialties included in the other five columns, "all specialties" includes GP medical and GP dental beds, staff wards, special care baby units and other special units.
⁵ Pembrokeshire figures are included in the 1985 figures.