§ Mr. Gwilym JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the hospital bed percentage occupancy rate for each district health authority in Wales in 1974 to 1979 and 1979 to the latest available date; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Nicholas BennettPrior to 1981, Pembrokeshire and East Dyfed DHAs existed as one authority (Dyfed DHA) and, therefore, it is not possible to give figures in the form requested. The available information is given in the following table.
Performance targets will be set for bed occupancy rates in the shortly to be published updated version of "NHS Wales: Agenda for Action".
Our target is for the percentage for NHS non-psychiatric hospital beds occupied to increase from 73.6 per cent. in 1990–91 to 78 per cent. by 1994–95.
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Percentage Bed occupancy rates 1974–79 1979–81 1982–1990–911 All beds Non-psychiatric beds All beds Non-psychiatric beds All beds Non-psychiatric beds Clwyd 73.6 73.3 75.5 72.0 77.6 74.0 Dyfed 78.9 74.4 78.7 75.1 n/a n/a East Dyfed n/a n/a n/a n/a 79.7 77.1 Gwent 77.1 73.9 76.5 75.7 78.8 75.7 Gwynedd 79.5 77.2 82.3 79.8 75.5 74.1 Mid Glamorgan 81.1 75.0 80.3 74.8 79.1 73.4 Pembrokeshire n/a n/a n/a n/a 73.9 73.7 Powys 79.7 71.1 78.9 79.2 78.8 77.6 South Glamorgan 81.9 78.5 81.8 77.7 78.8 76.3 West Glamorgan 76.1 72.5 75.7 71.8 74.6 70.9 Wales 78.6 74.8 78.7 75.2 77.9 74.5 1 Due a change in 1988 from collecting data on the basis of a calendar year to that of a financial year the information used to calculate this figure excludes data for the first quarter of 1988.