HC Deb 01 March 1971 vol 812 c351W
Mr. McGuire

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what criteria he uses to decide where a new hospital should be built.

Mr. Alison

In planning the development of services and the building of new hospitals regional hospital boards survey the area concerned to establish the needs and the different ways of meeting them, having regard to such factors as the location and state of existing hospitals and the possibilities of redeveloping them; finance; distribution of population; transport facilities and the availability of sites.