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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Bill O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many beds there were at the Pontefract General Infirmary in each of the past five years. [188829] Miss Melanie Johnson: The requested information is not validated centrally in the requested format. However, information for the relevant national health service trusts is shown in the tables. Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust--average daily number of available beds, by sector, 1996-97 to 2002-03 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. All General and Acute Geriatric Mental Learning Maternity Day only specialties acute illness disability (excluding day only) 1996-97 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1997-98 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1998-99 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1999-2000 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 2000-01 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 2001-02 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 2002-03 1,509 1,399 1,171 228 0 0 110 93 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals NHS Trust--verage daily number of available beds, by sector, 1996-97 to 2002-03 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. All General and Acute Geriatric Mental Learning Maternity Day only specialties acute illness disability (excluding day only) 1996-97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 1997-98 1,085 1,023 906 118 0 0 62 36 1998-99 1,064 1,001 898 104 0 0 63 58 1999-2000 1,050 987 885 103 0 0 63 58 2000-01 1,063 1,000 897 104 -- -- 63 61 2001-02 1,063 1,006 903 103 0 0 57 61 2002-03 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Dewsbury Healthcare NHS Trust--average daily number of available beds, by sector, 1996-97 to 2002-03 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. All General and Acute Geriatric Mental Learning Maternity Day only specialties acute illness disability (excluding day only) 1996-97 514 398 314 85 74 7 35 31 1996-97 514 398 314 85 74 7 35 31 1997-98 507 389 299 90 77 7 35 20 1998-99 509 393 292 101 72 6 38 30 1999-2000 521 406 292 114 67 6 41 30 2000-01 523 408 285 124 66 7 41 33 2001-02 531 417 281 135 67 8 40 34 2002-03 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: Department of Health form KH03.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

424 c1995-6W;424 c1993-4W; 188829

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Hospital beds Pinderfields Hospitals NHS Trust Pontefract Hospitals NHS Trust Pontefract Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Dewsbury Healthcare NHS Trust

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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