§ Ms LynneTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many district nurses were employed in each regional health authority in each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe information available is shown in the table.
the general and acute specialities given in the reply I gave the hon. Member on 29 June at column 418 did not begin until April 1991.
§ Mr. Kevin HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the number of emergency admissions of elderly patients to(a) the Doncaster and Montagu trust, (b) Doncaster healthcare trust and (c) the Trent region for the years 1990–91, 1991–92 and 1992–93.
§ Mr. SackvilleIn 1992–93 purchasers in the Trent region purchased 129,000 non-elective admissions of persons aged 65 and over. The comparable figure for 1991–92 was 131,000; the information for 1990–91 is not available. In 1992–93 the Doncaster royal infirmary and Montagu trust provided 6,400 non-elective admissions for those aged 65 and over. The corresponding figure for the Doncaster healthcare trust was 1,600. Similar information for 1990–91 and 1991–92 is not available.