§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the hospitals which have specialist trauma units. [31504]
§ Mr. SackvilleTrauma patients are normally taken to hospital accident and emergency departments.
In 1988 a Royal College of Surgeons report suggested that outcomes for patients with life-threatening injury might be better if they were treated in regional trauma centres.
We set up a pilot trauma centre at the North Staffordshire Hospitals National Health Service trust in 1990. The evaluation of this pilot is now complete and a report is being drafted.