§ 69. Mr. Edwin Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will now take steps to ensure that the casualty department at the Mexborough Montagu Hospital is kept open on a 24 hours daily service.
§ Dr. OwenThe Montagu Hospital has neither the necessary level of medical staff nor the back-up facilities to provide a casualty service 24 hours a day. It is the Department's policy to provide accident and emergency services only in174W selected district general hospitals, designated as having major accident units. The Montagu Hospital has not been so designated. Proposals for the future pattern of the casualty service at the Montague Hospital were set out in the Rotherham Area Health Authority's consultative document on its hospital bed provision for 1977–78, a copy of which was sent to my hon. Friend by the area health authority last November.