§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list district by district the number of beds in 1979 and for the latest available year indicating the percentage increase or decrease.
§ Mrs. CurrieFor the numbers of available beds I refer the hon. Member to my reply to him on 3 February at columns587–596. The remaining information requested is given in the table. Between 1979 and 1985, in England, the number of in-patient cases treated increased by 17.7 per cent. from 5,400,120 to 6,353,812.
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Percentage change in average daily number of available beds, NHS hospitals England Regional, District and Special Health Authority Percentage change 1979–1985 Northern Regional Health Authority Hartlepool 2.5 North Tees -1.6 South Tees -16.6 East Cumbria 1 South Cumbria 1 West Cumbria -5.9 Darlington -6.5 Durham -7.5 North West Durham -14.7 South West Durham -12.0 Northumberland -8.3 Gateshead -0.2 Newcastle upon Tyne -2.2 North Tyneside 0.9 South Tyneside 5.5 Sunderland -4.7 RHA Total -6.1 Yorkshire Regional Health Authority Hull -9.9 East Yorkshire -14.3 Grimsby 20.1 Scunthorpe -6.0 Northallerton -7.6 York -20.4 Scarborough -1.8 Harrogate 3.3 Bradford -7.8 Airedale -11.5 Calderdale -10.4 Huddersfield -21.6 Dewsbury -5.3 Leeds Western 1 Leeds Eastern 1 Wakefield -18.4 Pontefract 3.7 RHA Total -10.5 Trent Regional Health Authority North Derbyshire 1.6 South Derbyshire -16.0 Leicestershire -1.9 North Lincolnshire -25.4 South Lincolnshire -6.6 Bassetlaw 7.4 Central Nottinghamshire -10.2 Nottingham -6.4 Barnsley 17.9 Doncaster 1 Rotherham 1 Sheffield -8.8 RHA Total -7.3
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Regional, District and Special Health Authority Percentage change 1979–1985 East Anglia Regional Health Authority Cambridge 1 Peterborough 2.2 West Suffolk 1 East Suffolk 1 Norwich -10.6 Great Yarmouth 23.3 West Norfolk and Wisbech 2.1 Huntingdon 1 RHA Total -4.3 North West Thames Regional Health Authority North Bedfordshire -2.3 South Bedfordshire -6.0 North Hertfordshire -0.8 East Hertfordshire -13.8 North West Hertfordshire -3.4 South West Hertfordshire -13.6 Barnet -13.9 Harrow -0.4 Hillingdon -15.3 Hounslow and Spelthorne 1 Ealing -9.7 Brent -16.3 Paddington -11.2 Riverside 7.4 RHA Total -14.6 North East Thames Regional Health Authority Basildon and Thurrock 2.8 Mid Essex 11.5 North East Essex -24.8 West Essex -5.1 Southend -7.5 Barking, Havering and Brentwood -12.3 Hampstead 1 Bloomsbury 1 Islington 1 City and Hackney -11.9 Newham -6.5 Tower Hamlets -13.2 Enfield -13.4 Haringey -20.2 Redbridge -2.3 Waltham Forest -24.2 RHA Total -8.8 South East Thames Regional Health Authority Brighton -10.1 Eastbourne -18.9 Hastings -15.3 South East Kent 6.0 Canterbury and Thanet -18.8 Dartford and Gravesham -24.8 Maidstone -10.2 Medway 3.9 Tunbridge Wells -16.0 Bexley -13.2 Greenwich -14.6 Bromley -23.2 West Lambeth 1 Camberwell -11.8 Lewisham and North Southwark -12.3 RHA Total -14.5 South West Thames regional health authority North West Surrey -19.5 West Surrey and North East Hants 0.8 South West Surrey 5.2 Mid Surrey -21.6 East Surrey -21.8
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Regional, District and Special Health Authority Percentage change 1979–1985 Chichester -5.9 Mid Downs 2.6 Worthing 6.7 Croydon -17.4 Kingston and Esher 1 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 1 Wandsworth -18.6 Merton and Sutton -13.2 RHA Total -15.4 Wessex regional health authority East Dorset 6.2 West Dorset -9.0 Portsmouth -10.0 South West Hants and Southampton -3.3 Winchester -6.0 Basingstoke -10.7 Salisbury 3.6 Swindon -11.3 West Wiltshire and Bath -11.9 Isle of Wight -22.4 RHA Total -7.2 Oxford regional health authority East Berkshire -9.4 West Berkshire -18.8 Aylesbury 1 Wycombe -4.7 Milton Keynes 1 Kettering 10.2 Northampton -8.5 Oxfordshire -9.7 RHA Total -8.1 South Western regional health authority Bristol and Weston -10.6 Frenchay -14.8 Southmead -22.4 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly -5.6 Exeter -23.2 North Devon 1 Plymouth 1 Torbay 13.7 Cheltenham 1 Gloucester 1 Somerset -7.4 RHA Total -10.3 West Midlands regional health authority Bromsgrove and Redditch -25.3 Herefordshire -16.9 Kidderminister and District -17.9 Worcester and District -13.2 Shropshire -5.9 Mid Staffordshire -5.2 North Staffordshire -4.5 South East Staffordshire -4.1 Rugby -0.3 North Warwickshire 1 South Warwickshire 1 Central Birmingham 1 East Birmingham -0.6 North Birmingham -20.5 South Birmingham 1 West Birmingham 1 Coventry 0.8 Dudley 2.2 Sandwell 18.1 Solihull 1 Walsall -11.0 Wolverhampton -3.7
Regional, District and Special Health Authority Percentage change 1979–1985 RHA Total -8.7 Mersey regional health authority Chester -15.6 Crewe -27.8 Halton -12.3 Macclesfield 1.3 Warrington -16.5 Liverpool -16.5 St. Helens and Knowsley -13.9 Southport and Formby -11.6 South Sefton -2.1 Wirral -28.5 RHA Total -16.0 North Western regional health authority Lancaster -16.2 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 12.3 Preston 1 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley -8.7 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale -7.4 West Lancashire -8.3 Chorley and South Ribble 1 Bolton -8.5 Bury 13.1 North Manchester -14.1 Central Manchester 11.9 South Manchester -5.4 Oldham -1.8 Rochdale -13.6 Salford -13.2 Stockport 2.8 Tameside and Glossop 8.7 Trafford -7.3 Wigan -5.1 RHA Total -5.8 Special health authorities The Hospital For Sick Children -20.8 National Hospitals For Nervous Diseases -2.2 Moorfields Eye Hospital -21.5 Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals 6.8 National Heart and Chest Hospitals -25.6 The Royal Marsden Hospital -4.7 Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's 1 SHA Total -9.7 England Total -10.0 1 Comparable figures not readily available because of NHS restructuring on 1 April 1982. 2 Hammersmith and Fulham DHA and Victoria DHA prior to 1985.