Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley District Health Authority

HC Deb 16 February 1988 vol 127 cc558-9W

Mr. Ken Hargreaves

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many cases were dealt with by the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley district health authority from 1979 to 1986 in(a) general medicine, (b) paediatrics, (c) geriatric medicine and (d) general surgery.

Mrs. Currie

The requested information is given in the table.

	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986
Number of occupied beds	332.8	346.3	348.5	339.7	315.3	266.0	257.9	244.2
Discharges and deaths	1,015	1,328	1,636	2,013	2,439	2,255	2,385	2,267
Total out-patient attendances	345	508	773	1,054	1,089	1,382	1,745	1,812
Day cases	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
General surgery
Number of available beds	154.4	156.2	155.0	147.8	154.3	142.5	137.2	130.2
Number of occupied beds	129.7	128.6	125.2	119.6	120.0	111.4	106.5	97.2
Discharges and deaths	6,088	6,259	6,160	6,136	6,577	6,740	6,772	6,487
Total out-patient attendances	13,731	14,217	14,806	14,848	14,004	14,546	14,338	13,753
Day cases	397	560	650	570	553	698	708	715