Intensive Care Cots

Ms. Harman

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will specify the number of intensive care cots (a) in each region and (b) in each district of the last five years.

[holding answer 28 June 1990]: The tables showing the daily average numbers of neonatal cots which are not in a maternity unit for the period from 1985 to 1989–90 are as follows, although it should be noted that some health authorities also provide intensive care facilities within maternity units.

Health Authority	1985	1986	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90²
North Bedfordshire	14	14	14	14	14
South Bedfordshire	26	26	26	26	26
North Hertfordshire	20	20	20	20	13
East Hertfordshire	16	16	15	14	14
North West Hertfordshire	24	24	17	18	12
South West Hertfordshire	20	20	20	20	20
Barnet	34	38	36	26	26
Harrow	24	24	24	24	24
Hillingdon	22	22	22	22	22
Hounslow and Spelthorne	27	27	27	26	23
Ealing	10	10	10	10	10
Riverside	21	21	21	18	15
Parkside	34	35	28	30	30
North East Thames RHA	318	300	295	291	291
Basildon and Thurrock	21	21	17	21	21
Mid Essex	21	21	21	21	21
North East Essex	20	18	18	18	18
West Essex	16	16	16	16	16
Southend	16	16	16	16	16
Barking, Havering and Brentwood	31	27	27	27	27
Hampstead	18	16	19	18	18
Bloomsbury	30	31	22	22	23
Islington	20	20	20	20	20
City and Hackney	23	14	21	21	21
Newham	21	20	20	20	18
Tower Hamlets	12	13	12	12	12
Enfield	20	20	15	10	10
Haringey	17	16	18	18	18
Redbridge	18	18	18	18	18
Waltham Forest	14	14	14	14	14
South East Thames RHA	281	277	279	282	278
Brighton	22	21	24	24	24
Eastbourne	12	12	12	12	12
Hastings	12	12	12	12	12
South East Kent	19	18	19	19	19
Canterbury and Thanet	22	22	22	22	22
Dartford and Gravesham	14	14	14	14	14
Maidstone	10	10	10	10	10
Medway	19	19	20	20	20
Tunbridge Wells	17	17	17	17	17
Bexley	14	14	14	14	14
Greenwich	20	20	20	20	20
Bromley	19	16	15	15	15
West Lambeth	20	20	20	20	20
Camberwell	21	21	20	20	21
Lewisham and North Southwark	40	40	40	42	38
South West Thames RHA	187	188	185	188	189
North West Surrey	15	15	16	15	15
West Surrey and North East Hants	20	20	20	12	12
South West Surrey	14	14	14	14	14
Mid Surrey	14	14	14	13	14
East Surrey	12	12	12	12	11
Chichester	10	10	10	9	10
Mid Downs	18	18	18	20	19
Worthing	11	10	10	10	9
Croydon	19	20	19	20	20
Kingston and Esher	13	13	13	13	13
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton	8	8	8	8	8
Wandsworth	18	19	16	17	19
Merton and Sutton	15	15	16	25	25
Wessex RHA	193	180	179	182	183
East Dorset	28	28	28	28	28
West Dorset	13	13	14	15	15
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	25	25	25	25	25
Southampton and South West Hampshire	22	22	22	22	22
Winchester	16	16	16	16	16
Basingstoke and North Hampshire	14	14	14	14	14
Salisbury	14	14	14	14	14
Swindon	31	18	18	18	19
Bath	21	21	19	21	21
Isle of Wight	9	9	9	9	9
Oxford RHA	194	192	193	193	183

Health Authority	1985	1986	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90²
East Berkshire	33	35	35	35	27
West Berkshire	30	30	30	30	28
Aylesbury Vale	13	13	13	13	13
Wycombe	18	16	16	16	16
Milton Keynes	17	20	21	21	21
Kettering	16	16	16	16	16
Northampton	32	27	27	27	27
Oxfordshire	35	35	35	35	35
South Western RHA	208	200	198	166	168
Bristol and Weston	32	32	32	32	32
Southmead	32	30	30	30	30
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	20	20	20	20	20
Exeter	31	31	31	28	27
North Devon	6	6	7	0	2
Plymouth	24	24	24	24	24
Torbay	5	5	2	0	1
Cheltenham	12	12	12	12	12
Gloucester	20	20	20	20	20
Somerset	26	20	20	0	0
West Midlands RHA	434	428	400	402	387
Bromsgrove and Redditch	12	10	12	12	12
Herefordshire	12	12	12	14	12
Worcester and District	20	20	12	12	12
Shropshire	22	22	24	22	22
Mid Staffordshire	12	12	12	12	12
North Staffordshire	30	30	30	30	30
South East Staffordshire	14	14	14	14	15
Rugby	8	8	6	8	8
North Warwickshire	20	20	20	20	20
South Warwickshire	15	15	15	15	15
Central Birmingham	45	45	36	36	30
North Birmingham	22	22	22	22	22
South Birmingham	30	26	14	14	14
West Birmingham	25	25	25	24	23
Coventry	29	29	29	29	29
Dudley	20	20	20	18	18
Sandwell	14	14	13	14	14
Solihull	39	39	39	39	38
Walsall	20	20	20	21	21
Wolverhampton	26	26	26	26	20
Mersey RHA	188	188	178	175	172
Chester	29	29	23	20	20
Crewe	15	15	15	15	15
Macclesfield	10	10	10	10	10
Warrington	18	18	18	18	15
Liverpool	37	37	37	37	37
St Helens and Knowsley	24	24	20	20	20
Southport and Formby	11	11	11	11	11
South Sefton	20	20	20	20	20
Wirral	24	24	24	24	24
North Western RHA	341	328	333	332	334
Lancaster	16	16	15	16	16
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde	24	24	18	18	18
Preston	29	21	21	20	20
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley	20	20	20	20	20
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale	17	17	17	17	17
West Lancashire	9	9	9	9	9
Bolton	21	21	21	21	21
Bury	17	17	17	17	16
North Manchester	18	18	18	18	18
Central Manchester	30	30	43	41	41
South Manchester	29	28	27	28	28
Oldham	16	16	16	16	16
Rochdale	15	13	15	15	15
Salford	16	16	15	15	18
Stockport	22	22	20	20	20
Tameside and Glossop	20	19	19	19	19
Trafford	9	8	8	8	8
Wigan	14	14	14	14	14
Special Health Authorities	40	40	47	46	41
Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's	40	40	47	46	41
England	3,754	3,651	3,567	3,513	3,451

¹ Figures for 1987–88 to 1989–90 are not strictly comparable with earlier figures.

² Provisional.

Source:

SH3 return (special care baby unit cots) 1985 and 1986.

KHO3 return (neonate cots not on maternity units) 1977–88 onwards.

Volume 177: debated on Monday 15 October 1990