Oral Answers to Questions — A and E Departments

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 2 March 1999.

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Photo of Frank Dobson Frank Dobson The Secretary of State for Health 12:00, 2 March 1999

My hon. Friend, with his mastery of understatement, only repeats what many doctors and nurses told me in his presence last time I was in Wolverhampton.

One thing that we are doing with the extra money for modernising A and E departments is to put an extra £600,000 into modernising that department at Whipps Cross hospital in east London, and we shall sort out its management as well. That hospital needs a better A and E department, and it needs to be better run than it is at present if we are to avoid the scandalous things that happened there this winter.