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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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