HC Deb 08 December 1994 vol 251 cc357-8W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list for each national health service trust in England the number of meetings that were held in public and in private for the latest year for which figures are available.

Mr. Malone

The National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 requires NHS trusts to have one public meeting per year. Many NHS trusts have more. The number of such additional meetings and of those held in private is not available centrally.

Ms Jowell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions she has had with the Federation of National Health Service Trusts about the rise in emergency admissions to trust hospitals; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Sackville

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State discussed the Federation of National Health Service Trusts concerns about emergency admissions during the course of a meeting with it on 3 November.