Acute Hospital Beds

HC Deb 06 February 1990 vol 166 cc568-9W

1989. Mr. Thurnham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what were the number of acute hospital beds in the north-west area in(a) 1979 and (b)

Mr. Freeman

The information is given in the table:

Acute hospital beds in the North Western regional health authority
	Year
	1979	1988–89
Average daily available beds in the acute sector (including units for the younger disabled)	13,545	11,766

Over the same period numbers of patients treated have increased through improved efficiency in bed usage: in-patient cases treated up 43 per cent., day cases doubled and out-patient cases up 11 per cent.

Source: SH3 returns—1979.

KHO3 returns—1988–89.