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Mr. John D. Taylor
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the total number of hospital beds available in each of the past five years within the constituency of Norfolk, North-West.
Mr. Dorrell
Information about hospital beds is collected centrally by district health authority, and is not available for individual parliamentary constituencies. The figures for West Norfolk and Wisbech health authority are given in the table.
| Average daily available beds, and in-patient cases treated, West Norfolk and Wisbech district health authority, 1984 to 1988–89 | |||
| Year | Available beds | In-patient cases treated | In-patient cases treated per available bed |
| 1984 | 841 | 19,703 | 23·4 |
| 1985 | 847 | 20,445 | 24·1 |
| 1986 | 838 | 20,382 | 24·3 |
| 1987–88 | 871 | 21,949 | 25·2 |
| 1988–89 | 876 | 22,462 | 25·6 |