HC Deb 21 July 1993 vol 229 c212W
Mr. Pike

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what were the number of emergency admissions to(a) Burnley health care trust and (b) the North West regional health authority for 1991–92.

Mr. Sackville

In 1991–92 purchasers in the North Western region bought 331,000 non-elective admissions to hospitals. In the same year the predecessors of the Burnley health care trust provided 17,292 such admissions.