§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what reports she has received from Trent regional health authority concerning the extent to which the accident and emergency departments at hospitals within the region reached patients charter standards during the quarter ended(a) 31 December 1993 and (b) 31 March 1994.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe national health service executive does not collect centrally, as a matter of routine, information on individual national health service trusts and directly managed units in this area.
However, a special exercise is taking place to gather data for the first set of national health service performance tables which will be published shortly.