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Hospital Wards: Gender

Volume 472: debated on Tuesday 26 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which new hospitals opened in each of the last five financial years; and what proportion of beds in each were in single rooms. (180856)

Information for hospital build schemes with a capital value over £25 million is in the table.

Information is not held centrally for schemes below this threshold and could be collected only at disproportionate cost.

Since 2001, the Department’s guidance is that the proportion of single rooms in new hospital developments should aim to be 50 per cent., but should not fall below 20 per cent. and must be higher than the facilities they are replacing. Each trust makes an informed choice regarding the appropriate percentage of single bed provision based on practical considerations such as site restrictions and affordability as well as clinical and operational restrictions. The policy and design guidance for the provision of single rooms in mental health accommodation is 100 per cent.

New hospital facilities costing over £25 million opened in each of the last five financial years

National health service organisation

Capital value (£ million)

Scheme description

Proportion of beds in single rooms (percentage)

2003-04

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (FT)

30

Construction of new mental health facility at Fairmile

1

West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

60

New District General Hospital

25

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust

55

Redevelopment of Hexham General Hospital

75

South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

122

Site redevelopment and centralisation of acute hospital services at James Cook University Hospital

40

St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust

46

Neuro cardiac unit

20

Camden and Islington NHS Trust

26

Adult Mental Health Unit

100

Surrey Primary Care Trust (PCT)

29

The provision of a local care centre at Farnham Hospital

100

2004-05

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

40

Maternity and gynaecology unit at Royal Preston Hospital

1

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust

25

A and E Children’s development at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary

18

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

35

Mental health facilities at Woofield Road and St Charles

1

Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust

57

Heart and Lung Centre

27

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

32

Total site redevelopment

1

Barnet PCT

40

Edgware Community Hospital development

37

2005-06

Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust

137

Redevelopment and rationalisation

36

University College London Hospitals NHS Trust

422

Rationalisation of sites

34

West London Mental Health NHS Trust

36

Dangerous and severe personalities Unit at Broadmoor

100

Guys and St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust

50

Evelina Children’ Hospital

1

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

25

Renal Centre

22

Kirklees PCT

27

Provision of six Primary Care Centres

2

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

26

Ambulatory Care Centre at City Hospital

2

East London NHS Foundation Trust

34

Mental Health unit in Tower Hamlets

1

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

31

South West Cardiothoracic Unit Centre

100

The Cardiothoracic Centre Liverpool NHS Trust

49

Cardiac Centre in Liverpool

43

Wandsworth PCT

75

Redevelopment of Queen Mary’s Roehampton. Including specialist rehabilitation and amputee services

59

North West London Hospitals NHS Trust

69

Modernisation of Central Middlesex Hospital

33

2006-07

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre NHS Trust

45

Cardiac Centre

40

Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust

47

Partial redevelopment of Stoke Mandeville Hospital

30

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust

32

Reprovision of Mental Health services at St. George’s Hospital Morpeth

100

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

30

Burnley Hospital development—Phase V

32

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

83

Redevelopment of Mental Health facilities, community care services and crisis homes

100

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

110

Closure of Blackburn Royal Infirmary and expansion of Queen’s Park hospital

31

Newham University Hospital NHS Trust

55

Reprovision of Acute Services from St. Andrew’s to Newham General Hospital

39

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

379

New District General Hospital at Walsgrave

30

Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust

53

Cardiac Centre

50

Northamptonshire Teaching PCT

28

Danetre Community Hospital in Daventry

37

The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

32

Redevelopment of Acute Hospital services

55

The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust

72

Redevelopment of University Hospital including the separation of elective and emergency procedures

21

Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust

238

Rationalisation of two sites onto one adjacent to the existing Oldchurch Hospital in Romford

20

Hampshire PCT

36

Redevelopment of Lymington Hospital

50

Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust

134

Reprovision of specialist services from the Radcliffe Infirmary to a new build on the John Radcliffe Hospital site

65

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust

37

Orthopaedics/medicine redevelopment

33

2007-08

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

35

New Hadfield Wing to replace Victorian Vickers wards

50

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust

76

Elective Care Centre, Genetics and Diabetes at Addenbrookes

38

Brighton and Sussex University NHS Trust

36

Relocation of Royal Alexandra Hospital for sick Children

46

West London Mental Health NHS Trust

27

Women’s enhanced medium secure services

100

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

59

Essex Heart and Lung Centre

1

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust

33

Redevelopment of Kingston Hospital

23

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

265

Regional Oncology and Cancer centre at St. Jame’s University Hospital

42

1 These schemes are at FTs for which the Department does not hold the requested information. Information for these organisations can be obtained by contacting the chairman of the FTs.

2 No in-patient services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many sexual assaults have been reported on mixed sex wards since 1997. (183821)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital beds are located in single sex wards. (183822)