St. George's Hospital, Tooting (Hansard, 19 July 2001)

§ Mr. Cox
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many acute beds there are at St. George's Hospital, Tooting. [4530]

§ Mr. Hutton
In the financial year 1999–2000, St. George's Healthcare National Health Service Trust had 767 average daily number of acute beds in wards open overnight.
Figures are taken from the annual 'Omer return KH03—"Bed availability and occupancy" England 1999–2000.

§ Mr. Cox
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding has been allocated for the present financial year to(a) St George's Hospital, Tooting, and (b) Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth health authority. [4879]

§ Mr. Hutton
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth health authority's allocation for 2001–02 is £ £498.646 million. This represents an increase of £42.445 million or 9.3 per cent. over the allocation for the previous financial year.
Revenue funding is not allocated directly to national health service trusts. Trusts receive their income by way of service agreements with health authorities. However, St. George's NHS Trust has received capital allocations of £6.400 million in 2001–02. This includes £0.675 million for the Local Capital Modernisation Fund and £1.152 million for "action on" programmes for orthopaedics and ear, nose and throat.

§ Mr. Cox
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients were treated at St. George's hospital, Tooting, in 2000. [4880]

§ Mr. Hutton
The number of admissions to St George's National Health Service Trust in the year 1999–2000 was 66,121.
This information is extracted from the Hospital Episode Statistics system, which contains details of patients admitted to and treated in NHS hospitals in England. Some individuals may be treated more than once.