HC Deb 04 April 1990 vol 170 cc650-2W
Mr. Gould

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will update information given in the answer to the hon. Member for Dagenham on 20 March 1987,Official Report, column 669.

Mr. Freeman

The tables list mental illness hospitals with over 200 beds which we are aware were approved far closure in 1988, hospitals which were closed between 1987 and 1989 inclusive and those mental illness hospitals which health authorities plan to close by about 1995. No mental illness hospitals with over 200 beds were approved far closure in 1989.

Table 1—mental illness hospitals with over 200 beds, approved for closure, following public consultation.
Number of beds Date closure approved
Yorkshire
Clifton Hospital 303 March 1998
Table 2—Mental illness hospitals closed between 1987 and 1989.
Number of beds
Yorkshire
Naburn Hospital, Near York
Trent
Saxondale Hospital
St John's Hospital, Lincolnshire
South Western
Horton Road Hospital
Digby Hospital, Exeter
West Midlands
Powick Hospital, Worcester
Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield 606
Towers Hospital, Leicestershire 394
Kingsway Hospital, Southern Derbyshire 363
East Anglian
St Audry's Hospital, Woodbridge 372
St Nicholas' Hospital, Great Yarmouth and Waverney 131
St Andrews, Norwich 335
North East Thames
Friern Hospital1 673
Claybury Hospital 722
South East Thames
Cane Hill Hospital 343
Tooting Bec Hospital 420
Hellingly Hospital 154
St Augustines Hospital 235
South West Thames
Long, Grove Hospital, Epsom 404
Brookwood Hospital 489
Wessex
Whitecroft Hospital 75
Herrison Hospital, Dorchester 263
Old Manor Hospital1 216
Oxford
St John's Hospital, Aylesbury 282
St Crispin's Hospital, Northampton 263
Littlemore Hospital, Oxford 226
West Midlands
Barnsley Hall Hospital, Bromsgrove and Redditch 169
Rubery Hill Hospital, South Birmingham 211
Central Hospital, South Warwickshire 298
Hollymoor Hospital, Solihull 279
Mersey
Rainhill Hospital 487
Parkside Hospital 485
Winwick Hospital 815
North Westrn
North Manchester (Springfield) Hospital1 145
Northern
St Mary's, Stannington 495
South Western
Mendip Hospital 96
Moorhaven Hospital 157
1 With some facilities remaining on site.

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