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Dr. Fox
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many health professionals have been deployed to the Gulf; and from which NHS hospital trusts. [106635]
Mr. Hutton
As at 31 March 2003, 713 regular medical personnel serving in the Ministry of Defence (MOD) hospital units have been deployed to the Gulf region in support of military action against Iraq. These MOD hospital units are located within National Health Service hospitals at Portsmouth, Plymouth, South Tees, Frimley Park and Peterborough as well as the Royal College for Defence Medicine at University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust. In addition, some 760 medical reservists, some of whom would be NHS staff, had also been similarly deployed.Deployments from the MOD hospital units are as follows:
MOD Hospitals | Number |
Royal Hospital Haslar (Portsmouth Hospitals) | 273 |
Peterborough MDHU | 69 |
Derriford MDHU (Plymouth Hospitals) | 102 |
Northallerton MDHU (South Tees) | 91 |
Frimley Park MDHU | 114 |
Royal College for Defence Medicine: (University Hospital, Birmingham) | 64 |
Total | 713 |