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Written question asked by Tam Dalyell (Labour) on Friday, 24 October 1997, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 27 October 1997. It was answered by Sam Galbraith (Labour) on Monday, 27 October 1997 on behalf of the Scottish Office.

Scottish Office

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the number of staffed beds by specialty for the latest date for which information is available for (a) all hospitals in the Lothian Health Board area, (b) the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh Trust and (c) the West Lothian NHS Trust. - Includes table.
Answer

Mr. Dalyell: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of staffed beds by specialty for the latest date for which information is available for (a) all hospitals in the Lothian health board area, (b) the Royal infirmary of Edinburgh trust and (c) the West Lothian NHS trust. [12747] Mr. Galbraith: The information is set out in the table. NHSIS--Average available staffed beds; Lothian Health area: Quarter ending 30 June 1997{1} _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Lothian Health area Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh West Lothian NHS trust NHS trust All specialties 4,928 1,027 842 General Medicine 407 146 101 Cardiology 56 35 -- Communicable Diseases -- -- -- Dermatology 19 19 -- Endocrinology and Diabetes 3 -- -- Gastroenterology 45 22 2 Geriatric Medicine 1,143 110 161 Medical Oncology 18 -- -- Medical Paediatrics 115 37 30 Nephrology 33 33 -- Neurology 35 -- -- Rehabilitation Medicine 84 -- -- Respiratory Medicine 87 56 -- Rheumatology 14 -- -- General Surgery 98 -- 56 General Surgery (excluding 174 106 -- Vascular) Vascular Surgery 38 38 -- Anaesthetics 29 10 4 Cardiothoracic Surgery 33 33 -- Thoracic Surgery 26 26 -- Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) 37 24 6 Neurosurgery 48 -- -- Ophthalmology 21 20 -- Orthopaedics 222 172 38 Plastic Surgery 51 10 32 Surgical Paediatrics 24 -- -- Urology 60 -- 4 Oral Surgery 1 -- -- Paediatric Dentistry -- -- -- GP Other than Obstetrics 32 -- 11 Gynaecology 69 30 17 Obstetrics 164 83 44 General Psychiatry (Mental 643 -- 201 Illness) Child Psychiatry -- -- -- Adolescent Psychiatry 6 -- 6 Forensic Psychiatry 34 -- -- Psychiatry of Old Age 708 -- 123 Learning Disability (Mental 252 -- -- Handicap) Diagnostic Radiology -- -- -- Clinical Oncology 52 -- -- Haematology 28 -- 4 Unspecified{2} 19 16 2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Provisional. {2} Beds allocated as "unspecified" are not allocated to any particular specialty, and are lent to specialties on demand.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
12747; 299 c699-700W
Session
1997-98
Subjects
Hospital beds Lothian
Contains statistics
Yes