Catchment Areas (Liverpool)

Mrs. Ellman
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the catchment area is for patients for (a) Royal Liverpool University Hospital, (b) Royal Aintree Hospital, Liverpool, (c) Women"s Hospital, Liverpool, (d) Cardiothoracic Centre, Liverpool, (e) Alderley Hospital Trust, Liverpool and (f) the Neurological Unit, Walton. [110942]

Jacqui Smith 
[holding answer 6 May 2003]: The information requested has been provided in the table.

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|Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University NHS Trust|Central Liverpool   |
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|                                                   |North Liverpool     ||
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|                                                   |South Liverpool     ||
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|University Hospital Aintree                        |Knowsley            ||
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|                                                   |South Sefton        |
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|                                                   |Southport and Formby||
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|Royal Liverpool Children"s Trust     |
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|Cardiothoracic Centre NHS Trust      ||
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|Liverpool Women"s Hospital NHS Trust ||
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|Walton Centre for Neurology NHS Trust||
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Notes:

(i) There will be significant numbers of patients referred from the  PCTs identified above to other healthcare providers; (ii) The  Trusts (acute and specialist) identified above will provide  healthcare to a number ofother commissioners, and this will not  be restricted to England; (iii) Specialist Trusts provide a very  limited range of services across the Strategic Health Authority;  and (iv) Due to the above it is not possible to calculate catchment  populations in the format requested.

Source:

Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority