§ Dr. MarekTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many admissions to NHS hospitals there were in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and how many of these admissions were re-admissions within a month of hospital discharge.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesThe available information, based on aggregate hospital returns of discharge and deaths from NHS hospitals, is given in the table:
Numbers 1990–91 584,285 1991–92 638,873 1992–93 667,367 Information on how many of these cases were patients re-admitted within a month of hospital discharge is not available centrally.