0 a patient who remains in hospital during the day usually for a minor operation or other treatment --
The hospital offers diverse clinical services in outpatient clinics, day patient units, inpatient wards, clinical laboratories and other divisions.
Established in 1927, and modernised in the 1940s the facility offers clinical and hospital services on an inpatient, day patient and outpatient basis.
Primary objectives are more efficient assessment, greater emphasis on rehabilitation and on out-patient and day patient treatment, and improved conditions for those who must remain in hospital as long-stay patients.
Day cases have risen in that time from 3,900 to 4,400 and day patient attendances have risen from 16,900 to 21,900.
It has been unable to develop day patient facilities and community-based facilities as it would wish.
The facility provided five in-patient places and 10 day patient places.
When they hear that we have provided for over three and a quarter million additional day patient attendances, they dismiss it as statistics.
The hospital said that it hoped that the situation would stabilise and that she would remain as a day patient.
