Hospital Beds: Essex

Bob Spink
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many beds were available to mental health patients in the South Essex Strategic Health Authority in each of the last five years.

Phil Hope
Data are not collected in the format requested. Data are available for the South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and are shown in the following table.

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|South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust                                                                                 |Number|
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|2003-04                                                                                                                      |478   |
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|2004-05                                                                                                                      |512   |
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|2005-06                                                                                                                      |516   |
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|2006-07                                                                                                                      |497   |
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|2007-08                                                                                                                      |511   |
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|1 Average daily number of available beds in wards open overnight, mental illness sector.Source:Department of Health form KH03|      |
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