§ Mr. Roy Hughesasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the shortage of medical staff at the emergency unit of the Royal Gwent Hospital, New port, and that patients in need of attention have been unable to secure treatment when attending the hospital; and what action is being taken to improve the situation.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonI understand that owing to a vacancy in one Senior House Officer post and the sickness of another doctor it was necessary on one morning to ask patients to see their own doctors or to return in the afternoon; no accident case was refused treatment. Both the Hospital Management Committee and the Hospital Board are endeavouring to fill the vacant post.