§ Mr. CabornTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) acute and (b) long-stay hospital beds York health authority had open in each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Dorrell[holding answer 27 February 1992]: Figures relating to acute beds are given in the table. Information relating to long-stay beds is not collected 328W centrally. The hon. Member may wish to contact Mr. Pratt, the chairman of York district health authority, for details.
National health service hospitals, York health authority Total number of Year Average daily number of acute available beds In-patients Day cases 1979 763 27,296 4,444 1980 767 28,085 4,658 1981 771 28,330 4,548 1982 750 27,071 3,796 1983 743 29,641 4,444 1984 726 30,020 4,469 1985 725 31,646 4,801 1986 716 32,596 5,686 1987–88 691 34,062 4,549 1988–89 689 134,176 5,523 1988–89 — 238,184 5,523 1989–90 673 39,434 5,626 1990–91 652 39,530 5,425 1 Discharges and deaths. 2 Finished consultant episodes. Notes:
In-patients 1979 to 1988–89 discharges and deaths.
In-patients 1988–89 to 1990–91 finished consultant episodes. 1990–91 figures provisional.
Between 1979 and 1990–91 in York health authority the numbers of in-patient cases treated in the acute sector increased from 19,460 hospital discharges to 26,726 finished consultant episodes, an increase of 31 per cent. on a comparable basis, and for all sectors increased by 30 per cent. from 27,296 hospital discharges to 39,530 finished consultant episodes.