Gastrointestinal System
(asked on 7th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which acute hospitals do not offer 24 hour, seven days a week upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
This question was answered on 15th July 2015
The Department does not hold this information centrally. However, the recent report Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage: Time to Get Control? published by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death on 3 July 2015 found that 32% (60/185) of hospitals admitting gastrointestinal bleed patients did not have a 24/7 endoscopy service.