In-patients

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 November 1990.

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Photo of Stephen Dorrell Stephen Dorrell Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health) 12:00, 20 November 1990

My hon. Friend is precisely right. There is also an interim category of day cases—people who would previously have had to stay in hospital, in many cases for several days, and in some cases for several weeks. They are now treated as day cases. The number of day cases treated by the national health service has more than doubled since 1979.