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Child Patients

Volume 178: debated on Monday 29 October 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of child patients discharged from a stay in hospital had been nursed in an adult ward for each year from 1979 to 1989.

The information requested is not available centrally. Guidance on the welfare of children and young people in hospital, on which the Department is currently consulting interested parties, re-emphasises our policy that children should be treated in discrete children's departments, separate from adult wards.