HC Deb 22 October 2002 vol 391 c257W
Nick Harvey

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list those NHS acute services trusts which operate hospitals more than 50 miles apart, listing the number of beds in service at each such hospital. [76111]

Mr. Hutton

The only National Health Service trust that falls into the over 50-mile category is United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust. Information on the number of beds in service at each of the relevant hospitals is shown below:

Hospital Bed numbers and type
Gainsborough Nil
Spalding 28 healthcare and elderly
Skegness (in A&E Minor) 3 acute recovery
Grantham 190 acute
Lincoln 700 acute
Louth County 140 acute