§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the numbers of available beds in National Health Service hospitals in England for each year since 1979, expressed as totals and by specialty; and if he will break down the totals by region.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe information requested is contained in the booklets "Forms SH3, EDP4, 5 & 6—Regional and National summaries", copies of which have been placed in the Library.
§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list, by district health authority, regional health authority and special health authority, the average daily number of beds available in 1979 and 1986 for all specialties and for acute specialties.
§ Mrs. CurrieFor the information on the total number of beds in each health authority I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) on 17 December 1987, at columns699–703. The information requested on acute beds is given in the table. Between 1979 and 1986 the number of in-patient and day cases treated in the acute sector rose from 4.8 million to 5.9 million, an increase of 24.5 per cent.
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Average daily number of available beds, acute sector, 1979 and 1986 Health authority 1979 1986 Northern RHA 10,509 9,500 Hartlepool 359 348 North Tees 469 431 South Tees 1,418 1,064 East Cumbria 1— 522 South Cumbria 1— 396 West Cumbria 381 309 Darlington 398 403 Durham 506 443 North West Durham 426 327 South West Durham 296 296 Northumberland 743 661 Gateshead 508 477 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,039 1,977 North Tyneside 436 417 South Tyneside 413 380 Sunderland 1,156 1,051 Yorkshire RHA 11,855 10,782 Hull 1,058 983 East Yorkshire 635 476 Grimsby 471 478 Scunthorpe 448 440 Northallerton 276 241 York 1— 704 Scarborough 391 362 576W
Health authority 1979 1986 Harrogate 1— 502 Bradford 1,224 1,167 Airedale 513 422 Calderdale 580 501 Huddersfield 592 524 Dewsbury 408 411 Leeds Eastern 1— 1,357 Leeds Western 1— 1,231 Wakefield 702 570 Pontefract 439 413 Trent RHA 12,197 11,636 North Derbyshire 589 609 South Derbyshire 1,361 1,118 Leicestershire 1,850 1,883 North Lincolnshire 849 740 South Lincolnshire 647 646 Bassetlaw 240 233 Central Nottinghamshire 829 757 Nottingham 1,765 1,673 Barnsley 513 517 Doncaster 1— 739 Rotherham 1— 551 Sheffield 2,203 2,170 East Anglian RHA 5,276 5,227 Cambridge 1— 794 Peterborough 661 624 West Suffolk 1— 521 East Suffolk 1— 811 Norwich 1,395 1,311 Great Yarmouth 370 508 West Norfolk and Wisbech 438 373 Huntingdon 1— 285 North West Thames RHA2 11,288 8,602 North Bedfordshire 503 494 South Bedfordshire 468 465 North Hertfordshire 506 454 East Hertfordshire 416 372 North West Hertfordshire 478 469 South West Hertfordshire 471 418 Barnet 1,232 740 Harrow 559 545 Hillingdom 1,233 921 Hounslow and Spelthorne 1— 803 Ealing 242 382 Brent 528 434 Paddington and North Kensington 1,082 848 Riverside 2,359 1,257 North East Thames RHA2 13,501 11,732 Basildon and Thurrock 671 686 Mid Essex 502 588 North East Essex 924 631 West Essex 684 608 Southend 634 608 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 1,437 1,189 Hampstead 1— 701 Bloomsbury 1— 1,472 Islington 1— 523 City and Hackney 1— 1,035 Newham 761 523 Tower Hamlets 1— 797 Enfield 679 520 Haringey 878 715 Redbridge 415 423 Waltham Forest 1,001 713 South East Thames RHA2 12,083 10,097 Brighton 1,184 1,014 Eastbourne 466 461 Hastings 521 429 South East Kent 549 575 Canterbury and Thanet 990 762 Dartford and Gravesham 661 569 Maidstone 415 361 577W
Health authority 1979 1986 Medway 570 625 Tunbridge Wells 829 763 Bexley 392 322 Greenwich 1,074 811 Bromley 879 643 West Lambeth 1— 807 Camberwell 968 841 Lewisham and North Southwark 1,704 1,114 South West Thames RHA2 8,348 6,832 North West Surrey 544 453 West Surrey and North East Hampshire 457 454 South East Surrey 567 557 Mid Surrey 462 400 East Surrey 584 384 Chichester 414 395 Mid Downs 525 567 Worthing 495 522 Croydon 648 563 Kingston and Esher 1— 447 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 1— 357 Wandsworth 1,344 988 Merton and Sutton 955 745 Wessex RHA 7,600 7,241 East Dorset 1,118 1,088 West Dorset 457 452 Portsmouth 1,142 1,088 South West Hampshire and Southampton 1,370 1,315 Winchester 413 376 Basingstoke 488 501 Salisbury 463 472 Swindon 583 506 West Wiltshire and Bath 1,255 1,144 Isle of Wight 311 298 Oxford RHA 5,976 5,745 East Berkshire 949 772 West Berkshire 1,029 916 Aylesbury 1— 573 Wycombe 475 433 Milton Keynes 1— 274 Kettering 469 440 Northampton 777 714 Oxfordshire 1,650 1,625 South Western RHA 8,872 8,722 Bristol and Weston 1,240 1,138 Frenchay 567 564 Southmead 779 615 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 773 795 Exeter 1— 981 North Devon 327 329 Plymouth 1,040 1,087 Torbay 1— 698 Cheltenham 1— 527 Gloucester 1— 939 Somerset 1,016 1,049 West Midlands RHA 14,491 13,755 Bromsgrove and Redditch 529 382 Herefordshire 493 414 Kidderminster and District 211 222 Worcester and District 581 533 Shropshire 1,228 1,201 Mid Staffordshire 401 442 North Staffordshire 1,182 1,188 South East Staffordshire 394 501 Rugby 208 219 North Warwickshire 1— 300 South Warwickshire 1— 537 Central Birmingham 1— 1,159 East Birmingham 770 718 North Birmingham 496 373 South Birmingham 1— 905 West Birmingham 1— 815 Coventry 1,018 963
Health authority 1979 1986 Dudley 847 831 Sandwell 484 523 Solihull 1— 269 Walsall 507 482 Wolverhampton 899 780 Mersey RHA 8,722 6,991 Chester 549 494 Crewe 1— 520 Halton 60 147 Macclesfield 1— 348 Warrington 481 484 Liverpool 2,483 1,939 St. Helens and Knowsley 1— 660 Southport and Formby 419 343 South Sefton 1,230 1,047 Wirral 1,815 1,008 North Western RHA 13,467 12,219 Lancaster 447 417 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 858 849 Preston 1— 788 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Vly 740 766 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 724 657 West Lancashire 604 493 Chorley and South Ribble 1— 62 Bolton 681 579 Bury 396 404 North Manchester 1,219 947 Central Manchester 935 859 South Manchester 1,545 1,380 Oldham 510 440 Rochdale 551 430 Salford 983 915 Stockport 868 788 Tameside and Glossop 419 449 Trafford 477 353 Wigan 641 643 Special Health Authorities2 2,861 2,254 The Hospital for Sick Children 512 394 National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases 357 329 Moorfields Eye Hospital 208 152 Bethlehem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals 58 55 National Heart and Chest Hosptials 603 423 The Royal Marsden Hospital 361 354 Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's 1— 547 1 Comparable figures for 1979 not readily available due to NHS restructuring in 1982. 2 Figures for 1979 no comparable with those given for 1986 because of NHS restructuring in 1982.