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RECEIVEO HN HEGISTRY
Private Patients
26 JUL 1934
Mr Dobson, asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give for each year since 1979 and for
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each speetal health authority and Beard of governors (a) the number of authorised/pay bets at 3 December,
(b) the number of deaths and discharges of private patients and (c) the average daily occupancy of pay beds by private patients.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke [pursuant to his reply, Thursday 24 May 1984, c. 515]: The available information is given in the table.
Hospitals managed by Boards of Governors and Special Health Authorities-England
Number of authorised pay beds at
Number of discharges and deaths of
31 December
private patients
Average daily number of beds occupied by private patients
1979
1980
1981
1982
1979
1980 1981
1982
1979
1980 1981 1982
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Hospitals for sick children
brida-
Hospitals for nervous diseases
with
Moorfields eye hospital
Maudsley hospital
2426
27
27
31
34
900
901
897
928
24.0
22.4
26.3
22.0
14
14
18
18
288
263
265
287
10-6
10-6
10.4
10-0
22
22
22
1,376
1,500
1,260
1,339
13-9
14.3
12.7
12.4
6
6
76
58
58
21
3.6
2.6
1-9
1-0
; and
National heart and chest
hospitals
Royal Marsden hospital
2282
38
27
20
38
27
28
38
27
pilot ssel-
Queen Charlotte's hospital for
women
18
18
20
888888
20
38
877
894
759
877
27.5
20.8
17.3
18.6
27
923
943
888
1,019
19.4
20-0
19.9
19.1
20
793
833
845
870
12.9
12.2
11.7
11.5
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Royal national throat, nose
and ear hospitals
9
9
9
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549
309
344
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7·0
3.7
3.6
St. John's hospital for diseases
of the skin
1
1
1
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3
5
10
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0-1
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The Royal National
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Orthopaedic hospital
17
17
17
*
227
283
286
*
10.2
St. Peter's hospital group
12
12
12
*
406
390
385
*
22
11-0
8.5
7.3
8-2
8-0
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Hammersmith special health
authority†
18
447
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Following NHS restructuring in 1982, these hospitals are now managed by regional health authorities. †This Special Health Authority was created in 1982.
PRIME MINISTER
South African Prime Minister (Visit)
Mr. Parry asked the Prime Minister if she will list in the Official Report the representations she has received concerning the proposed visit of Mr. Botha.
The Prime Minister: I have received some 250 representations concerning Mr. Botha's visit. It would not be practical to list them all but they include the following: National Association of Community Relations Councils London Association of Community Relations Councils London Borough of Brent
Leader of the GLC
Standing Conference of Afro-Caribbean and Asian Councillors
In addition I met Bishop Trevor Huddleston on 30 May as a representative of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. I have made clear in response to these representations that the visit signals no change in our policy of fundamental disagreement with apartheid, but affords a major opportunity to express our views to the South African Government on bilateral and regional issues.
Institute for the Study of Conflict (Reports)
Mr. Cohen asked the Prime Minister, further to her answer of 8 May, Official Report, column 273, if she will list, by Department, the reports from the Institute for the Study of Conflict, of which copies have been obtained by the Government since the institute's inception; what account has been taken of these reports since 1979 in the formulation of Government policy; and if she will make
a statement.
The Prime Minister: This information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate
cost.
Hong Kong
Mr. Parry asked the Prime Minister if she will make a statement on the recent meeting with the Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
The Prime Minister: I met the delegation of unofficials for over an hour on 15 May. They explained their understanding of the wishes and anxieties of the Hong Kong people. I assured them that I fully understood their concerns. Both sides reaffirmed the necessity of maintaining stability and prosperity in Hong Kong. I stressed the importance to that end of reaching a detailed agreement which would be acceptable to the Government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, to the Chinese Government and to the people of Hong Kong.
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RAF Alconbury (Search Incident)
Mr. Deakins asked the Prime Minister if she will make statement on the circumstances surrounding the participation of United States military personnel in the searching, including strip-searching, of United Kingdom citizens, following the incursion into RAF Alconbury.
The Prime Minister: My right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary has received from the chief constable of Cambridgeshire a report about the searching of women at Huntingdon police station on 13 May and will make a statement when he has completed his consideration of the report.
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