§ Mr. Dunnettasked the Minister of Health whether the provision for plastic surgery and treatment for burns injury for the City of Nottingham is up to national average; whether it meets his approved standard; and what proposals he has for increasing the provision of beds and improving facilities for operations and existing amenities in relation to treatment.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonIn the Nottingham area, as in most parts of the country, the immediate treatment of burns is at present undertaken in hospital accident and 263W emergency departments. The Platt Sub-Committee on Accident and Emergency Services (1962) recommended that certain accident and emergency departments should be designated as burns centres. A few such centres already exist. The Sheffield Regional Hospital Board intend eventually to provide a burns centre in Nottingham as part of the reorganisation of accident and emergency services there.
There are 35 plastic surgery beds at the Nottingham City Hospital; these represent 2.5 per 100,000 population of the area served as compared with the national average of 3.7 per 100,000. The Regional Board intend to provide more plastic surgery beds in Nottingham in due course as part of a regional service.