Given that such a high proportion of Netherne's patients are psycho-geriatrics with such high levels of dependence for feeding, dressing and dealing with incontinence, that helps further to explain the Admission Crisis that has arisen at the hospital.

Is the Minister aware that the Secretary of State's earlier denial of a Crisis in the Admission of patients to hospital is denied by the experience of patients up and down the country?

Since the summer, they have had to endure circumstances in which the hospitals in the region have been on red alert because of an Admissions Crisis.