To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital blue light accident and emergency departments she plans to downgrade to urgent care centre status in each year to 2010. (95088)

Changes in the services provided by hospital departments are matters for local decision. The guiding principle of reconfiguration is to improve the clinical quality, safety and sustainability of patient services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many people who registered at the accident and emergency department at Wycombe Hospital (a) in each year from 2001 until the implementation of the Shaping Health Services proposal on that department and (b) since the implementation of the Shaping Health Services proposal were (i) treated at Wycombe Hospital and (ii) transferred for treatment to (A) Stoke Mandeville, (B) Wrexham Park and (C) other hospitals; (96705)

[holding answer 24 October 2006]: The information requested is not held centrally.