§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give for 1984 for each region and for England as a whole the number of deaths and discharges a month compared to the number of beds occupied.
§ Mrs. CurrieInformation about discharges and deaths is not collected centrally on a monthly basis. The annual figures are given in the table.
1984 Regional health authority Discharges and deaths Average number of beds occupied daily Northern 420,080 19,145 Yorkshire 499,895 21,424 Trent 557,930 23,512 East Anglian 238,332 9,959 North West Thames 415,559 20,219 North East Thames 534,760 23,277 South East Thames 487,772 20,430 South West Thames 338,587 19,405 Wessex 345,528 14,249 Oxford 284,583 10,066 South Western 399,018 18,136 West Midlands 644,202 27,119 Mersey 322,138 15,923 North Western 597,756 23,994 Special hospital areas 91,405 2,466 England 6,177,545 269,324