§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set out the rate of growth in emergency readmissions of people over 75 per thousand emergency admissions in each of the last five years in(a) each region and (b) England. [88785]
§ Jacqui Smith[holding answer 7 January 2003]: The emergency readmission rates collected by the Department use number of discharges from hospital as the denominator, rather than number of emergency admissions. The information requested, therefore, is not available.