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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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