HC Deb 08 February 1995 vol 254 cc273-4W
Ms Jowell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will provide figures of(a) the number of surgical beds (b) the number of intensive care beds and (c) the number and locations of surgical beds without same site access to an intensive care unit for (i) North Thames regional health authority and (ii) South Thames regional health authority.

Mr. Sackville

Information on beds is collected by ward classification and not by clinical speciality. Details of the average daily number of intensive care beds available and the average daily number of general and acute beds available for each national health service trust in the North Thames regional health authority and the South Thames regional health authority is published in "Bed availability for England, Financial year 1993–94", copies of which are available in the Library.

Mrs. Beckett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many intensive therapy unit beds there were in London in each year since 1990.

Mr. Sackville

I refer the right hon. Member to the reply I gave on 2 February,Official Report column 846.