}
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time care can be maintained but in which only minimum
overnight attention can be made available.
If the
experiment proves successful it will be extended but it
is unlikely that more than 240 beds could be provided in
this way in the foreseeable future.
7.13
Chapter 12 of this White Paper deals with some
of the ways in which action will be taken to seek to
reduce the numbers of accidents which give rise to the
need for urgent admissions to hospital. These are in
the main likely to have effect only in the longer term.
7.14 Because of the high cost and long lead time
inevitably involved in the provision of hospital beds
there will be no ready short term palliative if
additional provision becomes inescapable. It will
however be a major function of the annual review to be
conducted by the MDAC, with the benefit of the improved
function of the augmented statistical unit of the Medical
and Health Department, to keep this matter under the
closest possible review.
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