§ Mr. FoulkesTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the total number of hospital beds in(a) medical and (b) surgical specialisms in each health board area as at 1st April 1993, 1994 and 1995; and what are the projected figures for 1996 and 1997. [24053]
National Health Service hospitals in Scotland: average available staffed surgical and medical beds Quarters ending 31 March 1993 31 March 1994 31 December 19941 Surgical (1) Medical (2) Surgical Medical Surgical Medical Scotland 8,568 6,260 8,051 6,117 7,856 5,942 Argyll and Clyde 573 451 541 447 538 439 Ayrshire and Arran 596 371 565 382 557 367 Borders 143 95 137 95 131 92 Dumfries and Galloway 210 107 187 136 186 146 Fife 391 236 378 240 362 240 Forth Valley 354 193 346 196 354 192 Grampian 853 593 838 576 811 576 Greater Glasgow 2,064 1,661 1,905 1,573 1,864 1,470 Highland 384 276 364 258 356 255 Lanarkshire 888 544 845 536 809 520 Lothian 1,222 1,071 1,152 1,012 1,100 999 Orkney 39 — 39 — 39 — Shetland 23 24 26 20 26 20 Tayside 777 589 676 601 675 582 Western Isles 50 50 52 46 51 44 1 Provisional Notes:
1. Surgical: general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, ENT surgery, ophthalmology, urology, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, plastic surgery, orthodontics and paediatric dentistry, oral surgery and medicine, restorative dentistry, spinal paralysis, paediatric surgery, gynaecology.
2. Medical: general medicine, cardiology, metabolic diseases, neurology, gastroenterology, poisons, dermatology, nephrology, rheumatology, rehabilitation medicine, respiratory medicine, radiotherapy (consultative) paediatric medicine, anaesthetics, haematology.
3. General practice beds are excluded.