HC Deb 25 January 1995 vol 253 c253W
Mr. Nicholas Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS hospitals, overall and by region, have been closed since 1979; and how many NHS hospitals there are at present.

Mr. Sackville

There are at present, depending on definition, 1,600 national health service hospitals in England. Information about the numbers of hospital closures since 1979 is not available centrally.

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