§ Mr. Norman Atkinsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many local authority areas throughout England and Wales with a total population of 230,000 or above have not got a hospital accident and emergency department located within their boundaries.
§ Mr. Moyle, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 23 January 1979; Vol. 961, c. 109], gave the following additional information:
So far as Wales is concerned, I understand that every county and district in Wales with a population of 230,000 or more has an accident and emergency department within its boundaries.
Information about the provision of hospital services in England is not readily available in terms of local authority areas; the information which follows relates, therefore, to health districts whose populations range approximately from 75,000 to 515,000. There are only two health districts in England which do not have within their boundaries an accident and emergency department. These are North Nottingham (238,200), which refers its cases to one of three accident and emergency departments in the South Nottingham health district, and Beverley (224,900), whose services are provided in Hull.