§ Mr. DismoreTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what services are now available at Edgware Community Hospital; how many people used each of those services in the last year; and if he will make a statement. [129948]
§ Mr. DenhamServices currently available at Edgware Community Hospital are:
- Adolescent psychiatry
- Cardiology testing
- Children's services
- Consultant-led outpatients services
- Day surgery
- Dietetics
- Birth Centre
- Intermediate care beds
- Mental health services for adults, including in-patient facilities
- Occupational therapy
- Pathology and blood tests
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy
- Specialist services (e.g. rehabilitation following brain injury)
- Speech and language therapy
- Urgent Treatment Centre for Minor Injuries
- X-ray and ultrasound.
A primary care walk-in centre will open at the end of August 2000.
During 1999–2000 there were 30,000 attendances at the urgent treatment centre, 80,000 outpatient attendances across a range of specialties, 3,200 attendances for day surgery and 28,940 diagnostic tests. 228 births took place at the Edgware Birth Centre and there were 219 admissions to the general practitioner admission unit.