Speeches

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:

  1. Quarterly collection of beds data started in Quarter 1 2010-11. Previously data were collected annually and are not comparable.
  2. Available (staffed) beds are collected for consultant-led care in general and acute, maternity, mental health and learning disability services.