§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will review his Department's guidelines for appropriate numbers of psychiatric outpatient clinics, in view of the City and Hackney district health authority's findings that its community-based psychiatric service needs approximately three times the number of clinics recommended in the guidelines.
§ Mr. John PattenThe Department does not lay down guidelines on levels of provision of psychiatric outpatient clinics. This is a matter for decision at local level in the light of all relevant local circumstances.