§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many patients occupied geriatric long-stay beds in NHS hospitals in(a) 1971, (b) 1976, (c) 1981, (d) 1986 and (e) 1991 and in each of the last three years. [17588]
§ Mr. HagueInformation is collected centrally on the basis of the number of in-patient cases treated in the specialty of geriatric medicine and, therefore, no split between long-stay and acute patients is available. The number of in-patient cases is given in the following table.
Number of in-patient cases treated in the specialty of geriatric medicine Number 1971 11,153 1976 17,840 1981 23,776 1986–87 37,634 1991–92 47,219 1992–93 50,255 1993–94 51,666 1994–95 48,577