To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) acute and (b) long-stay hospital beds York health authority had open in each year since 1979.
[holding answer 27 February 1992]: Figures relating to acute beds are given in the table. Information relating to long-stay beds is not collected centrally. The hon. Member may wish to contact Mr. Pratt, the chairman of York district health authority, for details.
| National health service hospitals, York health authority | |||
| Total number of | |||
| Year | Average daily number of acute available beds | In-patients | Day cases |
| 1979 | 763 | 27,296 | 4,444 |
| 1980 | 767 | 28,085 | 4,658 |
| 1981 | 771 | 28,330 | 4,548 |
| 1982 | 750 | 27,071 | 3,796 |
| 1983 | 743 | 29,641 | 4,444 |
| 1984 | 726 | 30,020 | 4,469 |
| 1985 | 725 | 31,646 | 4,801 |
| 1986 | 716 | 32,596 | 5,686 |
| 1987–88 | 691 | 34,062 | 4,549 |
| 1988–89 | 689 | 134,176 | 5,523 |
| 1988–89 | — | 238,184 | 5,523 |
| 1989–90 | 673 | 39,434 | 5,626 |
| 1990–91 | 652 | 39,530 | 5,425 |
| 1 Discharges and deaths. | |||
| 2 Finished consultant episodes. | |||
Notes:
In-patients 1979 to 1988–89 discharges and deaths.
In-patients 1988–89 to 1990–91 finished consultant episodes. 1990–91 figures provisional.
Between 1979 and 1990–91 in York health authority the numbers of in-patient cases treated in the acute sector increased from 19,460 hospital discharges to 26,726 finished consultant episodes, an increase of 31 per cent. on a comparable basis, and for all sectors increased by 30 per cent. from 27,296 hospital discharges to 39,530 finished consultant episodes.