HC Deb 30 November 1987 vol 123 cc445-8W
Mr. Kirk wood

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in theOfficial Report the latest bed-occupancy, throughput and waiting list figures for health authorities.

Mrs. Currie

The table shows the latest information about bed occupancy, which is the average number of occupied beds as a percentage of the average number of available beds, and throughput, which is the number of inpatient cases treated per available bed. The latest waiting list information is contained in the bound volume of the hospital waiting lists for health authorities in England at 31 March 1987, a copy of which is in the Library.

Percentage of bed occupancy and throughput, NHS hospitals, 1986
Health authorities Percentage bed occupancy Throughput
Northern region 79.6 19.0
Hartlepool 67.9 29.5
North Tees 74.9 26.4
South Tees 74.2 28.9
East Cumbria 78.4 15.6
South Cumbria 79.3 24.1
West Cumbria 83.1 16.2
Darlington 81.7 15.6
Durham 79.9 15.8
North West Durham 77.6 22.0
South West Durham 85.1 9.9
Northumberland 85.8 8.0
Gateshead 83.7 15.6
Newcastle upon Tyne 80.3 25.2
North Tyneside 77.4 27.5
South Tyneside 81.7 21.5
Sunderland 70.7 21.5
Yorkshire region 78.4 20.5
Hull 76.2 25.7
East Yorkshire 66.9 14.2
Grimsby 79.0 25.2
Scunthorpe 72.1 27.8
Northallerton 72.3 22.8
York 81.6 14.3
Scarborough 78.2 32.6
Health authorities Percentage bed occupancy Throughput
Harrogate 71.1 21.2
Bradford 76.6 23.1
Airedale 76.4 16.1
Calderdale 75.2 20.4
Huddersfield 84.9 14.5
Dewsbury 79.0 27.7
Leeds Western 85.1 19.7
Leeds Eastern 83.4 24.4
Wakefield 78.8 13.8
Pontefract 74.1 25.8
Trent region 77.9 20.5
North Derbyshire 75.8 16.9
South Derbyshire 75.7 16.0
Leicestershire 80.0 19.9
North Lincolnshire 75.1 15.5
South Lincolnshire 76.2 18.3
Bassetlaw 74.9 25.4
Central Nottinghamshire 73.4 21.5
Nottingham 78.0 25.9
Barnsley 80.9 24.6
Doncaster 84.1 22.0
Rotherham 77.7 24.5
Sheffield 78.7 20.9
East Anglian Region 78.4 20.4
Cambridge 79.3 20.3
Peterborough 77.7 28.1
West Suffolk 77.4 20.3
East Suffolk 82.5 14.6
Norwich 78.4 18.2
Great Yarmouth 76.9 23.3
West Norfolk and Wisbech 71.0 24.4
Huntingdon 74.3 34.5
North West Thames Region 83.3 18.3
North Bedfordshire 82.7 19.8
South Bedfordshire 84.6 21.3
North Hertfordshire 84.1 28.6
East Hertfordshire 81.5 26.8
North West Hertfordshire 79.3 5.5
South West Hertfordshire 80.8 25.5
Barnet 86.8 15.4
Harrow 80.2 31.5
Hillingdon 81.9 29.7
Hounslow and Spelthorne 83.7 28.1
Ealing 90.3 13.0
Brent 83.5 11.9
Paddington and North
Kensington 80.6 29.7
Riverside 86.9 18.8
North East Thames Region 84.3 20.4
Basildon and Thurrock 85.5 17.6
Mid Essex 77.4 22.2
North East Essex 84.6 15.1
West Essex 84.0 23.0
Southend 82.8 20.0
Barking, Havering and Brentwood 85.5 17.0
Hampstead 85.4 14.2
Bloomsbury 80.3 32.1
Islington 80.0 33.0
City and Hackney 85.3 24.0
Newham 88.8 26.1
Tower Hamlets 88.4 26.4
Enfield 83.7 22.4
Haringey 83.7 22.1
Redbridge 88.7 12.8
Waltham Forest 84.3 16.1
South East Thames Region 81.6 26.3
Brighton 80.6 25.8
Eastbourne 79.7 18.7
Hastings 75.6 24.4
South East Kent 81.9 29.5
Health authorities Percentage bed occupancy Throughput
Canterbury and Thanet 75.7 18.6
Dartford and Gravesham 82.0 15.0
Maidstone 79.4 14.4
Medway 69.2 35.2
Tunbridge Wells 81.9 16.5
Bexley 83.3 14.6
Greenwich 81.9 27.3
Bromley 84.2 15.3
West Lambeth 93.2 19.0
Camberwell 84.7 30.2
Lewisham and North Southwark 83.1 29.6
South West Thames Region 84.4 16.4
North West Surrey 84.3 16.3
West Surrey and North East Hants 88.3 14.6
South West Surrey 82.3 28.8
Mid Surrey 86.1 8.5
East Surrey 82.5 11.2
Chichester 85.4 17.1
Mid Downs 77.3 17.6
Worthing 84.3 28.5
Croydon 86.1 13.1
Kingston and Esher 90.7 18.0
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 82.8 20.9
Wandsworth 85.0 19.9
Merton and Sutton 81.9 15.6
Wessex Region 79.0 21.3
East Dorset 79.7 24.6
West Dorset 79.5 14.6
Portsmouth 79.3 22.5
South West Hants and Southampton 80.3 24.2
Winchester 81.0 25.0
Basingstoke 78.4 16.4
Salisbury 80.8 20.2
Swindon 77.0 22.7
West Wiltshire and Bath 77.7 19.0
Isle of Wight 74.6 23.0
Oxford Region 79.0 24.5
East Berkshire 81.7 26.1
West Berkshire 80.0 22.0
Aylesbury 77.8 17.2
Wycombe 78.8 30.9
Milton Keynes 76.2 37.1
Kettering 77.9 29.3
Northampton 80.6 19.4
Oxfordshire 77.1 27.3
South Western Region 78.9 19.6
Bristol and Weston 75.2 29.5
Frenchay 83.3 9.0
Southmead 80.6 21.8
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 82.4 17.2
Exeter 75.6 16.9
North Devon 72.6 26.1
Plymouth 74.3 26.7
Torbay 77.7 26.0
Cheltenham 74.9 26.7
Gloucester 80.0 19.3
Somerset 82.4 14.1
West Midlands Region 80.5 20.9
Bromsgrove and Redditch 77.2 17.3
Herefordshire 73.5 21.2
Kidderminster and District 84.0 12.8
Worcester and District 78.2 21.3
Shropshire 76.4 22.2
Mid Staffordshire 83.4 20.3
North Staffordshire 82.4 18.2
South East Staffordshire 78.2 14.4
Rugby 65.8 31.6
Health authorities Percentage bed occupancy Throughput
North Warwickshire 80.3 16.3
South Warwickshire 79.0 13.5
Central Birmingham 84.1 30.5
East Birmingham 86.5 30.2
North Birmingham 85.8 20.0
South Birmingham 82.9 17.6
West Birmingham 83.7 18.9
Coventry 79.2 27.7
Dudley 76.2 25.0
Sandwell 78.1 28.6
Solihull 77.3 20.0
Walsall 85.1 17.9
Wolverhampton 78.6 26.9
Mersey Region 82.9 18.8
Chester 79.0 17.8
Crewe 78.0 17.7
Halton 83.7 16.0
Macclesfield 83.4 9.2
Warrington 87.7 10.7
Liverpool 81.2 27.2
St. Helens and Knowsley 84.3 14.8
Southport and Formby 85.4 13.4
South Sefton 83.7 27.6
Wirral 82.3 24.9
North Western Region 80.2 22.0
Lancaster 85.7 11.0
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 86.2 21.9
Preston 81.0 19.4
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 81.9 16.1
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 76.8 13.9
West Lancashire 76.1 22.3
Chorley and South Ribble 80.9 12.9
Bolton 79.0 28.3
Bury 77.1 27.1
North Manchester 79.4 23.7
Central Manchester 79.5 37.1
South Manchester 79.5 31.9
Oldham 73.8 28.8
Rochdale 72.8 27.2
Salford 81.2 16.4
Stockport 81.7 21.6
Tameside and Glossop 81.3 29.1
Trafford 81.9 23.7
Wigan 76.9 26.1
Special Health Authorities 77.8 30.3
The Hospital For Sick Children 72.9 37.9
National Hospitals For Nervous; Diseases 75.7 19.1
Moorfields Eye Hospital 67.8 71.7
Bethlehem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals 80.2 5.4
National Heart and Chest Hospitals 79.4 34.2
The Royal Marsden Hospital 77.1 34.6
Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's 80.7 35.0
The Eastman Dental Hospital