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Hospital Accident And Emergency Units

Volume 173: debated on Tuesday 22 May 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list the hospital accident and emergency units open in December 1989;(2) how many existing hospital accident and emergency units are open for less than 24 hours a day.

The information which has been placed in the Library shows (a) the 418 hospital sites which reported that on 31 March 1989 they had an accident and emergency department open a full seven days a week and (b) the 91 who reported that they had an accident and emergency department open less than a full seven days per week.(

Note:—Data on hours of opening were not received on 2 accident and emergency departments, Hemel Hempstead hospital, NW Herts DHA and St. Richards, Chichester DHA.)