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Table 5 Services provided in UK community hospitals [18].

From: Community hospitals – the place of local service provision in a modernising NHS: an integrative thematic literature review

Service

Number (%) of community hospitals (n = 471)

Outpatient clinics

313 (66)

Minor injury units

330 (70)

Day hospitals

229 (49)

Physiotherapy

470 (100)

Occupational therapy

432 (92)

Speech therapy

361 (77)

Chiropody/podiatry

358 (76)

Inpatient & day care surgery

79 (18)

Maternity services

74 (16)b

Plain X-ray

296 (63)

Contrast X-ray

70 (15)

Ultrasound

151(32)

  1. b. Of these, 20 units were solely midwife-led.