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Hospital Beds

Volume 270: debated on Monday 29 January 1996

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To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many beds there were in Wales in 1980, 1985, 1990 and 1995 or other statistically convenient dates for the (a) acute, (b) psychiatric, (c) geriatric, (d) psycho-geriatric, (e) private hospital and (f) private nursing home sectors of health provision. [12443]

The information is given in the following table.

19801985–861990–911994–95
Average daily available beds in NHS hospitals:
Acute10,1129,7789,0568,479
Psychiatric17,5586,4954,0222,640
Geriatric4,1084,2303,8113,345
Psychogeriatric2764501,6021,536
Beds at 31 March 2:
Private hospitals3246264318
Private nursing homes31,9019,65613,270

Notes:

1 Includes the specialties of mental handicap, mental illness, child and adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry.

2 Figures for 1980 and 1985–86 are at 31 December.

3 Not available.