Further to the answer to question S1W-21205 by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 February 2002, what the average number of available staffed beds was …

The following table shows the number of beds per 1,000 population, in each NHS board area in the years 2000 and 2001. It is not meaningful to make comparisons between individual boards, because these figures do not take account of differences in the underlying healthcare needs of the population living in different NHS board areas, nor do they take account of the extent to which hospitals in one area may treat patients from neighbouring NHS board areas.NHSiS
- Average available staffed beds1; by health board of treatment, rate per 1,000 populationYear Ending | 31 December 2000 | 31 December 2001p
Acute Rate2 | Acute Surgical Rate | Acute Rate2 | Acute Surgical Rate
Scotland | 3.2 | 1.2 | 3.2 | 1.2
Argyll & Clyde | 3.1 | 1.1 | 3.1 | 1.0
Ayrshire & Arran | 3.0 | 1.1 | 3.0 | 1.1
Borders | 2.5 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 0.8
Dumfries & Galloway | 2.5 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 1.1
Fife | 2.3 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 0.8
Forth Valley | 2.7 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 1.1
Grampian | 3.0 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 1.3
Greater Glasgow | 4.4 | 1.7 | 4.4 | 1.7
Highland | 3.5 | 1.4 | 3.5 | 1.4
Lanarkshire | 2.8 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 1.0
Lothian | 3.2 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 1.1
Orkney | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0
Shetland | 2.6 |