Just to explain a bit more, my father died in hospital on Valentine's Day in 2006. If the hospital had not had an A&E we would have had to drive over 40 miles to the next one. As it was, he was supposed to be going to the home he had been in the next day, as they said he had improved. Then we got a phone call to say he had deteriorated. Not even my sister who lived 2 miles away from the hospital managed to get there before he died, with no family there.