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Mr. George Gardiner
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many surgical accident cases were taken at Redhill General Hospital over the most recent 12 months for which figures are available; and how this figure compares with those for other hospitals in the South-West Thames Regional Health Area.
Dr. Owen
Figures in the form requested are not available, but there were 27,404 attendances at Redhill's accident and emergency department in the calendar year ending 31st December 1974. Figures for other hospitals in the Surrey area for that year are as follows:
| HOSPITALS NOW IN THE EAST SURREY DISTRICT | ||
| Dorking General | … | 2,747 |
| Royal Earlswood | … | 15* |
| Oxted and Limpsfield | … | 2,767 |
| Horley and District Cottage | … | 2,832 |
| East Surrey | … | 499 |
| Caterham and District | … | 2,367 |
| HOSPITALS NOW IN THE MID-SURREY DISTRICT | |
| Epsom District | 28,757 |
| Epsom and Ewell Cottage | 18* |
| Cobham and District Cottage | 1,915 |
| Leatherhead | 9* |
| HOSPITALS NOW IN THE SOUTH-WEST SURREY DISTRICT | ||
| Haslemere and District | … | 3,468 |
| Royal Surrey County | … | 26,246 |
| St. Luke's | … | 12* |
| HOSPITALS NOW IN WEST SURREY AND NORTH EAST HANTS | |
| Farnham | 14,953 |
| Frimley and Camberley | 5,161 |
| Frimley Park (A and E Dept. opened 1.8.74) | 4,368 |
| Farnborough and Cove(Hospital closed 16.9.74) | 3,801 |
| Fleet and District | 1,334 |
| Yateley and District (Hospital closed 31.1.74) | 914 |
| HOSPITALS NOW IN THE NORTH-WEST SURREY DISTRICT | ||
| Woking Victoria | … | 14,930 |
| St. Peter's, Chertsey | … | 29,021 |
| Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic | … | 5,818 |
| Egham | … | 4,254 |
| Weybridge | … | 3,673 |
| Walton General | … | 8,703 |
| HOSPITALS NOW IN THE NORTH SURREY DISTRICT | |||||
| Ashford | … | … | … | … | 34,925 |
*No accident department. | |||||