Mark Hendrick – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-10-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many in-patient NHS beds there were in Lancashire on 1 June (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) 2015; and what the location of those beds was on each of those dates.
Ben Gummer
The information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the average daily number of available overnight beds in hospital trusts in Lancashire during the first quarter of each financial year.
Average daily number of available overnight beds, quarter 1
|
Name |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
2015-16 |
|
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
855 |
773 |
836 |
816 |
819 |
810 |
|
Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
228 |
237 |
234 |
235 |
230 |
223 |
|
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust |
908 |
926 |
918 |
926 |
968 |
980 |
|
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust |
748 |
659 |
572 |
520 |
521 |
510 |
|
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
1,010 |
971 |
914 |
886 |
877 |
875 |
|
Total for hospital trusts in Lancashire |
3,750 |
3,566 |
3,473 |
3,383 |
3,415 |
3,398 |
Source:
Quarterly collection of bed availability and occupancy, NHS England
Notes:
- Quarterly collection of beds data started in Quarter 1 2010-11. Previously data were collected annually and are not comparable.
- Available (staffed) beds are collected for consultant-led care in general and acute, maternity, mental health and learning disability services.
