§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each region and for England as a whole the number of(a) special and intensive care cots, (b) special and/or intensive care cots closed during 1990–91 for financial reasons, (c) vacancies for fully-trained neonatal nurses, (d) training places for neonatal nurses available in each year from 1987 and (e) training places for neonatal nurses filled in each year from 1987.
§ Mr. DorrellThe information requested at parts(b) to (e) is not collected centrally. The latest information on the daily average numbers of neonatal cots which are not in a maternity unit is set out in the table. It should be noted, however, that some health authorities also provide intensive care facilities within maternity units.
Special and neonatal intensive care cots by regional health authority England, 1988–89 to 1989–90 1988–89 11989–90 Regional health authority Northern 260 262 Yorkshire 282 280 Trent 310 302 East Anglian 135 132 North West Thames 269 249 North East Thames 291 291 South East Thames 282 278 South West Thames 188 189 Wessex 182 183 Oxford 193 183 South Western 166 168 West Midlands 402 387 Mersey 175 172 North Western 332 334 Special health authority Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's 46 41 ENGLAND 3,513 3,451 1 Provisional. Source: KHO3 return (neonate cots not on maternity units).