The minister then turned to the matter of the decision taken for a further temporary change closure of the City Hospital emergency department from 1 November 2011.
Two days after being bitten the man admitted himself to a hospital emergency department having developed necrotising fasciitis - the disease dubbed by the media as the flesh eating bug after it killed 22 people in England and Wales in 1994.
Campaigners opposed a move to turn the hospital's emergency department into a minor injuries facility in 2011.
The trust launched a public consulation process in June which included proposals on the future of Downe Hospital's emergency department.
Within the hospital's emergency department itself, the trust failed to meet its target for patients spending more than four hours there.
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He said that at its public meeting in June the trust had stressed that it had been making "strident attempts" to recruit doctors for the hospital's emergency department.
Mr Wells has claimed the trust's attempts at recruiting doctors have been "half-hearted" and that GPs are angry at a proposal which could see them running Downe Hospital's emergency department at night.
Hospital workers also had rates of emergency department utilization and hospital admission for a number of chronic medical ailments including congestive heart failure, hypertension, depression, coronary artery disease, diabetes, asthma as well as obesity.
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The way things work at present, they're taken to their local District General Hospital accident and emergency department, where they're sometimes met at the door by a junior doctor with little experience of their condition.
You do not have to have a forensic examination if you go to a SARC, hospital accident and emergency department or your GP, but you may need to receive treatment for any injuries, emergency contraception or to check for sexually-transmitted diseases.
Mr Poots' action followed a public outcry over the death of a 77-year-old man who died on a hospital trolley while waiting in the emergency department at the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH).
Dr. Emory Petrack, director of the pediatric emergency department at Fairview Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, says when it's a "truly critical emergency, " get to the nearest hospital. (Truly critical emergencies include severe pain, trauma with multiple injuries, and difficulty breathing).
When her condition deteriorated her mother brought her to Altnagelvin Hospital's accident and emergency department.
While in the hospital's accident and emergency department Mr Cook's nose started to bleed and he began to lose consciousness.
Bosses at Stafford Hospital have said they were struggling to cope with the demand on the hospital's accident and emergency department.
It is most commonly used when a patient is declared dead after being brought into a hospital's accident and emergency department.
Mr Moore-Robinson, from Coalville, Leicestershire, was taken to the hospital's accident and emergency department after a mountain bike accident in Cannock Chase.
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The Northern Health Trust has been under considerable pressure, mainly due to the poor performance of the Antrim Area Hospital's accident and emergency department.
Brigham and Women's hospital staff treated injuries at the scene and also received 31 patients, including one who might lose a limb, said Ron Walls, chairman of the hospital's department of emergency medicine.
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On the other end of the spectrum, if it's a relatively small problem (a minor burn, for example, or a cut that requires a few stitches) it may not be worth a long trip to a pediatric hospital, says Dr. Joseph Luria, medical director of the Emergency Department at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
"It was brought about because of the very severe pressure on the emergency department at Causeway Hospital, " he said.
The patients were admitted to the emergency department at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough in August.
Imagine the common situation of an 85-year old suffering from chest pain who is brought to the emergency department of her local hospital.
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The profile shows that there were 513 alcohol-related attendances to the emergency department at Borders General Hospital over a five-month period, including 16 people who were 15 years or younger.
"We are just looking to take some of the pressure off the accident and emergency department at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, " said Alun Harris, of the Welsh Ambulance Service.
With a high sulphuric acid content, the cleaner was so strong that the accident and emergency department at the first hospital the boy attended had to be evacuated, said Michael Robinson, from the Baltimore County Fire Department.
Dancing is good for older people's health and balance, studies show, especially salsa, says Timothy Dougherty, medical director of the emergency department at nearby Cape Coral Hospital.
He was making a statement to the assembly following the decision of the Belfast Trust to close the emergency department of the Belfast City Hospital on a temporary basis.
This last December, an emergency room doc (thought to be female based on the handwriting) wrote a note to the widow of a patient she had treated in the Emergency Department of New York Presbyterian Hospital.
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Campaigners fear the cuts to services at the hospital could include the closure of the accident and emergency department.
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