§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the average weekly number of theatre sessions for each regional health authority for each year since 1985 and for the current year to date.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe available information is given in the table. Information about operating theatre usage has been collected centrally only since 1987. Figures for the year ending March 1992 are not yet available centrally.
continuing care beds available in hospitals, for occupation by elderly people, and what is the average length of stay in such beds.
§ Mr. YeoThe table shows, for each health authority, the number of beds in wards designated for elderly patients. Continuing care beds are not separately identified. The average length of stay in these beds is 36.2 days.
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Number of beds available in wards designated general patient — elderly in 1990–91 Number Northern Regional Health Authority 3,683 Hartlepool 157 North Tees 160 South Tees 244 East Cumbria 279 South Cumbria 269 West Cumbria 194 Darlington 144 Durham 173 North West Durham 121 South West Durham 179 Northumberland 339 Gateshead 216 Newcastle 457 North Tyneside 185 South Tyneside 171 Sunderland 395 Yorkshire Regional Health Authority 3,909 Hull 239 East Yorkshire 178 Grimsby 152 Scunthorpe 223 Northallerton 95 York 236 Scarborough 177 Harrogate 176 Bradford 340 Airedale 218 Calderdale 240 Huddersfield 256 Dewsbury 175 Leeds Western 442 Leeds Eastern 386 Wakefield 168 Pontefract 209 Trent Regional Health Authority 4,411 North Derbyshire 333 South Derbyshire 434 Leicestershire 758 North Lincolnshire 257 South Lincolnshire 276 Bassetlaw 105 Central Nottinghamshire 282 Nottingham 572 Barnsley 273 Doncaster 283 Rotherham 250 Sheffield 588 East Anglian Regional Health Authority 2,373 Cambridge 344 Peterborough 238 West Suffolk 295 East Suffolk 426 Norwich 503 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 204 West Norfolk and Wisbech 251 Huntingdon 112 North West Thames Regional Health Authority 3,173 North Bedfordshire 238 South Bedfordshire 169 North Hertfordshire 203 East Hertfordshire 209 North West Hertfordshire 256 South West Hertfordshire 184 Barnet 473 Harrow 169 Hillingdon 238 Hounslow and Spelthorne 230 Ealing 131 Riverside 255 Parkside 418 411W
Number North East Thames Regional Health Authority 3,483 Basildon and Thurrock 285 Mid Essex 253 North East Essex 241 West Essex 214 Southend 214 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 335 Hampstead 130 Bloomsbury 76 Islington 102 City and Hackney 149 Newham 248 Tower Hamlets 225 Enfield 209 Haringey 221 Redbridge 236 Waltham Forest 346 South East Thames Regional Health Authority 3,212 Brighton 229 Eastbourne 290 Hastings 254 South East Kent 316 Canterbury and Thanet 298 Dartford and Gravesham 166 Maidstone 129 Medway 228 Tunbridge Wells 163 Bexley 138 Greenwich 189 Bromley 249 West Lambeth 142 Camberwell 164 Lewisham and North Southwark 259 South West Thames Regional Health Authority 2,566 North West Surrey 157 West Surrey and North East Hants 174 South West Surrey 224 Mid Surrey 133 East Surrey 180 Chichester 98 Mid Downs 218 Worthing 352 Croydon 200 Kingston and Esher 231 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 166 Wandsworth 189 Merton and Sutton 244 Wessex Regional Health Authority 2,780 East Dorset 583 West Dorset 238 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 441 Southampton and South West Hampshire 322 Winchester 186 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 165 Salisbury 164 Swindon 174 Bath 378 Isle of Wight 127 Oxford Regional Health Authority 1,647 East Berkshire 165 West Berkshire 328 Aylesbury Vale 124 Wycombe 205 Milton Keynes 83 Kettering 295 Northampton 220 Oxfordshire 227 South Western Regional Health Authority 3,240 Bristol and Weston 206 Frenchay 396 Southmead 84 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 395 Exeter 367
Number North Devon 183 Plymouth 414 Torbay 221 Cheltenham 262 Gloucester 296 Somerset 417 West Midlands Regional Health Authority 4,846 Bromsgrove and Redditch 87 Herefordshire 157 Kidderminster and District 136 Worcester and District 214 Shropshire 263 Mid Staffordshire 210 North Staffordshire 643 South East Staffordshire 372 Rugby 75 North Warwickshire 131 South Warwickshire 226 Central Birmingham 162 East Birmingham 206 North Birmingham 160 South Birmingham 334 West Birmingham 341 Coventry 4 Dudley 196 Sandwell 234 Solihull 84 Walsall 286 Wolverhampton 326 Mersey Regional Health Authority 2,047 Chester 206 Crewe 259 Halton 67 Macclesfield 108 Warrington 96 Liverpool 368 St. Helens and Knowsley 192 Southport and Formby 153 South Sefton 212 Wirral 387 North Western Regional Health Authority 4,406 Lancaster 189 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 409 Preston 138 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 258 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 264 West Lancashire 78 Chorley and South Ribble 118 Bolton 283 Bury 210 North Manchester 230 Central Manchester 142 South Manchester 298 Oldham 194 Rochdale 166 Salford 290 Stockport 382 Tameside and Glossop 230 Trafford 210 Wigan 317 Special Health Authorities 127 The Hospitals for Sick Children 0 The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 0 Moorfields Eye Hospital 0 Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals 0 Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital 0 The Royal Marsden Hospital 0 Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's 127 The Eastman Dental Hospital 0 England 45,902 Source: KHO3.