§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many persons in England were readmitted to a psychiatric hospital in 1975, specifying those persons readmitted for a second, third and fourth time and over.
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Region served Beds in mental illness hospitals Beds in general hospital psychiatric units Beds in other mental illness units Ratio of total beds per 1,000 population Northern … … 5,969 830 96 2.2 Yorkshire … … 7,645 501 25 2.3 Trent … … 7,305 410 29 1.7 East Anglia … … 3,131 237 None 1.9 North West Thames … … 8,721 733 81 2.7 North East Thames … … 6,879 471 10 2.0 South East Thames … … 8,261 544 45 2.5 South West Thames … … 8,807 257 None 3.1 Wessex … … 4,793 87 116 1.9 Oxford … … 2,810 145 140 1.4 Southwestern … … 6,270 78 111 2.1 West Midlands … … 8,824 661 92 1.8 Mersey … … 6,071 794 32 2.8 North Western … … 4,992 1,806 45 1.7
§ Mr. EnnalsOf the 174,859 admissions to mental illness hospitals and units in England in 1975, 117,628 were readmissions. Information as to the number of persons to whom these figures relate is not available, nor is information on the number of readmissions for a second, third and fourth time and over. A sample study in 1972 suggested that in that year the number of persons admitted was about 79 per cent. of the number of admissions.
§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what proportion of psychiatric patients are, respectively, receiving day care, in-patient treatment in a psychiatric hospital and in-patient treatment in a psychiatric ward of a district general hospital.
§ Mr. EnnalsAt the end of 1974, there were approximately 100,000 mental illness patients receiving day or in-patient care, 9 per cent. were day patients, 86 per cent. were in-patients in psychiatric hospital, and 5 per cent. were in-patients in general hospitals.
§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the number of beds in (a) psychiatric hospitals and (b) psychiatric wards in district general hospitals in each area health authority in England; and what ratio of beds per 1,000 population each figure represents.
§ Mr. DeakinsMany mental illness hospitals provide services for more than one health area, and there may be no separate bed allocation. According to our figures, at the end of 1975 the provision in each health region was as follows:
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Region Area Health Authority Number of beds Northern … … Cleveland … … 207 Durham … … 332 Cumbria … … 88 Newcastle* … … 53 South Tyneside … … 150 Yorkshire … … Bradford … … 162 Leeds* … … 187 Calderdale … … 60 North Yorkshire … … 50 Humberside … … 42 Kirklees … … 100 Trent … … Derbyshire … … 160 Doncaster … … 111 Sheffield* … … 40 Nottinghamshire* … … 33 Barnsley … … 66 East Anglia … … Norfolk … … 79 Cambridgeshire* … … 56 Suffolk … … 102 North West Thames … … Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow* … … 94 Brent and Harrow … … 88 Hillingdon … … 54 Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster* … … 113 Bedfordshire … … 150 Hertfordshire … … 234 North East Thames … … City and East London* … … 144 Camden and Islington … … 95 Enfield and Haringey … … 52 Barking and Havering … … 20 Redbridge and Waltham Forest … … 26 Essex … … 134 South East Thames … … Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark* … … 266 Greenwich and Bexley … … 32 Bromley … … 84 Kent … … 124 East Sussex … … 38 South West Thames … … Merton, Sutton and Wands worth* … … 175 Kingston and Richmond … … 40 Croydon … … 12 West Sussex … … 30 Wessex … … Wiltshire … … 81 Hampshire … … 6 Oxford … … Berkshire … … 101 Buckinghamshire … … 44 Southwestern … … Gloucestershire … … 10 East Somerset … … 20 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly … … 16 Avon* … … 32 West Midlands … … Birmingham* … … 37 Coventry … … 212 Dudley … … 113 Wolverhampton … … 209 Staffordshire … … 90 Mersey … … Cheshire … … 231 Liverpool* … … 274 Sefton … … 129 St. Helens and Knowsley … … 160 North Western … … Lancashire … … 525 Manchester* … … 734 Bolton … … 6 Bury … … 54 Oldham … … 176 Rochdale … … 104 Salford … … 30 Tameside … … 78 Wigan … … 99 * Teaching authorities It will take some further time to produce the ratio of beds per 1,000 population for mental illness hospitals, general hospital psychiatric units and other mental illness units for each region and the ratio of beds in general hospital psychiatric units per 1,000 population for each area, but I shall write to my hon. Friend.