HC Deb 13 May 1985 vol 79 cc33-4W
Mr. Meacher

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many discharges of patients, after inpatient stays in National Health Service hospitals in England in each of the years 1973 to 1983, were of patients who had been re-admitted after having been previously discharged in the same year.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

We do not have sufficient information centrally on re-admissions to answer this question.