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<p>The Armed Forces operate 14 Field Hospitals: three Regular Army, ten Regionally
Recruited Reserve Field Hospitals and one Nationally Recruited Reserve Field Hospital.
These are shown below:</p><p>22 Field Hospital (Regular) - presently deployed in Sierra
Leone</p><p>33 Field Hospital (Regular)</p><p>34 Field Hospital (Regular)</p><p>201
(Northern) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>202 (Midlands) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>203
(Welsh) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>204 (North Irish) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>205
(Scottish) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>207 (Manchester) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>208
(Merseyside) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>212 (Yorkshire) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>243
(Wessex) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>256 (London) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>306
Hospital Support Regiment (Reserve)</p><p>Regular Field Hospitals have a permanent
cadre of staff who maintain the hospital and its equipment in barracks. During deployments
and exercises they are augmented with Regular clinical staff from the Joint Medical
Command. At the highest level of readiness, one of these units is able to deploy its
lead elements at five days notice.</p><p>The Reserve Field Hospitals' role is to be
ready to deploy for enduring operations with a minimum of 18 months notice. This allows
sufficient time to prepare both the manpower and equipment for the deployment. Reserves
can and do also volunteer as individuals to deploy on operations with Regular units
at shorter notice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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