HC Deb 27 July 1967 vol 751 cc236-7W
Mr. Selwyn Lloyd

asked the Minister of Health when Ellesmere Port can expect to have the new hospital at Mostyn to serve Chester and Ellesmene Port; and, in the meantime, what steps are being taken to provide an adequate casualty unit at the existing Cottage Hospital at Whitby.

Mr. K. Robinson

Planning is well advanced for a new district general hospital to be built at Deva to serve the Chester and Ellesmere Port area. Building is expected to begin in 1968 and be completed by 1975. There are no plans to provide a major accident centre at the existing Ellesmere Port Hospital, but the Regional Hospital Board have in mind possible minor improvements to this hospital when resources permit.