HC Deb 29 January 1996 vol 270 c530W
Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what dates between 1 December 1995 and 14 January 1996, and at what hospitals in the Greater Manchester area, accident and emergency facilities were closed to new admissions. [11176]

Mr. Horam

Greater Manchester ambulance service has a policy of not accepting any requests to divert and takes emergency patients to the nearest accident and emergency department as a matter of course.