Hospitals

Mrs. Gorman
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the total number of (a) hospital beds, (b) nurses, (c) consultants and (d) all administrative staff in the national health service hospitals in (i) England and (ii) the Basildon and Thurrock health authority or its predecessor for each of the years 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985 and the most recent date for which figures are available.

Mr. Dorrell
[pursuant to the reply, 6 July 1990, c. 710–12]: I regret that one of the tables published contained an error. The corrected table for Basildon and Thurrock DHA is as follows:

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|1975|
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|1980|
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|1985|
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|1988|
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n/a = not available.