asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will list all those proposed hospital closures since June 1979 which he has overruled;(2) if he will list all proposed hospital closures since May 1979, by region, indicating
(a) whether or not the proposed closure was objected to by the community health council and (b) what was the final outcome.
For hospitals approved for complete closure between May 1979 and 31 March 1985 I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him by my right hon. and learned Friend the then Minister for Health on 20 May at columns 317–28.Hospitals approved for complete closure between April and 30 June 1985, the latest date for which information is available, are as follows:
Region | District Health Authority | Hospital |
Yorkshire | York | Naburn |
North West Thames | South Bedfordshire | Priory |
South West Thames | North Bedfordshire | Park |
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton | Westmoor House | |
Wessex | Isle of Wight | Longford |
Region | Area/District Authority | Health | Hospital | |
May to December 1979 | ||||
Yorkshire | Humberside | Townend Maternity | A | |
East Anglian | Norfolk | Bowthorpe | N | |
1980 | ||||
N.W. Thames | Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster | St. Columbas | A | |
N.E. Thames | City and East London | London Jewish | A | |
Enfield and Haringey | Bearstead Memorial | A | ||
S.W. Thames | Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth | Henderson | N | |
1981 | ||||
Northern | North Tyneside | Willington Quay | A | |
Yorkshire | Wakefield | Newton Lodge Annex | A | |
Carr Gate | A | |||
Headlands | A | |||
Trent | Derbyshire | Parwich | A | |
Smedley Memorial | A | |||
N.W. Thames | Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow | Temple Hill House | A | |
Bedfordshire | Daneswood Convalescent | A | ||
Wessex | Hampshire | Barton-on-Sea Maternity | N | |
Mersey | Liverpool | Royal Liverpool Children's, Heswall Branch | N | |
1982 | ||||
Nil | ||||
1983 | ||||
East Anglian | Norwich | Home Place Convalescent | A | |
Longacre | A | |||
N.W. Thames | Barnet | West Hendon | A | |
Brent | Leamington Park | A | ||
N.E. Thames | Haringey | Prince of Wales | A | |
S.E. Thames | Camberwell | St. Giles | A | |
S.W. Thames | Wandsworth | South London Hospital for Women | A | |
South Western | Frenchay | Wendover Maternity | A | |
Mersey | Wirral | Cleaver | A | |
1984 |
Region
| Area/District Authority
| Health
| Hospital
| |
Yorkshire | East Yorkshire | Woodgates Maternity | A | |
Bradford | Thornton View | A | ||
Shipley | N | |||
N.W. Thames | Hounslow and Spelthorne | St. Johns | A | |
Paddington and North Kensington | Chepstow Lodge | A | ||
N.E. Thames | Waltham Forest | Harts | A | |
City and Hackney | The Mothers | A | ||
The German | A | |||
St. Matthews | A | |||
Tower Hamlets | Mildmay Mission | A | ||
Oxford | Milton Keynes | Westbury Maternity | A | |
West Midlands | Worcester and District | St. Wulstans | A | |
Mersey | Liverpool | Princes Park | A | |
North Western | Bury | Ainsworth | A | |
Wigan | Ashton | A | ||
1985
| ||||
Northern | Gateshead | Whickam | A | |
Yorkshire | Airedale | Wharfedale Childrens | P | |
Leeds Eastern | Marguerite Hepton | A | ||
Leeds Western | Grassington | A | ||
N.W. Thames | North Bedfordshire | Park | A | |
N E. Thames | Enfield | Chestnut Cottage | P | |
Waltham Forest | Jubilee | P | ||
S.E. Thames | Greenwich | St. Nicholas | P | |
Dreadnought Seamans | P | |||
West Midlands | South Warwickshire | Monroe Devis Maternity | A | |
North Western | Preston | Fullwood Continuation | A | |
National Heart and Chest Hospitals Special Health Authority | Brompton Hospital,* (at Frimley) | P | ||
A=Approved. | ||||
N=Not approved. | ||||
P=Decision pending at 30 June. | ||||
* Community Health Council Opposition not applicable. |