HC Deb 15 January 1990 vol 165 cc76-7W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what are the numbers of psycho-geriatric and geriatric beds in each hospital within the Doncaster area health authority on 1 January 1980, 1 January 1985, 1 January 1989 and at 1 January 1990.

Average daily number of available beds, Geriatric and Psycho-geriatric specialties National Health Service hospitals, Doncaster district health authority
Year ending:
Hospital 31 December 1979 31 December 1984 31 March 1989
Geriatric
Doncaster Royal Infirmary 20.5 21.6 20.0
Fullerton Hospital 0.0 34.0 34.0
Tickhill Road Hospital 171.0 178.2 121.8
Conisborough Hospital 101.0 99.0 96.2
Montagu Hospital2 25.1 25.4 21.0
TOTAL 317.6 358.2 293.0
Psycho-geriatric1
Tickhill Road Hospital 44.5 88.3 98.1
Loversall Hospital 30.0 0.0 0.0
TOTAL 74.5 88.3 98.1
1 In 1979 beds for psycho-geriatric patients were not always separately identifiable from those designated mental illness.
2 Transferred from Rotherham district in the 1982 reorganisation.

Sources: 1979, 1984: SH3 return (geriatric, psycho-geriatric specialties); 1989: KHO3 returns (ward classifications: general patients—elderly, mental illness-elderly).