HC Deb 12 July 1989 vol 156 cc566-71W
Mrs. Gillian Shephard

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing the number of long-stay patients discharged from each mental handicap hospital in England and Wales since 1981.

Mr. Freeman

Provision of the information for each hospital would involve disproportionate cost. The table shows, for each district health authority, the number of discharges, excluding transfers and deaths, of mentally handicapped patients after a stay of one year or more in an NHS mental handicap hospital or unit in England. The figures in the table may not exactly equate to numbers of people, because some may have been discharged several times during the period. The information for 1981 could not be provided without disproportionate cost due to boundary changes to the district health authorities' areas. The information for Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

NHS Mental Handicap Hospitals and Units in England 1986 Number of long stay patients discharged by Hospitals in districts
District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Northern RHA 59 66 104 80 112
Hartlepool 0 0 0 0 0
North Tees 0 1 3 0 1

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
South Tees 0 0 0 0 0
East Cumbria 0 0 0 0 0
South Cumbria 0 0 0 5 15
West Cumbria 15 14 14 22 2
Darlington 12 11 35 12 18
Durham 7 11 17 12 16
North West Durham 0 0 0 0 0
South West Durham 0 0 0 0 0
Northumberland 25 27 33 29 59
Gateshead 0 0 0 0 0
Newcastle 0 0 0 0 0
North Tyneside 0 0 0 0 0
South Tyneside 0 2 2 0 1
Sunderland 0 0 0 0 0

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and Special Hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Yorkshire RHA 104 67 95 192 203
Hull 40 9 11 5 14
East Yorkshire 0 0 0 0 0
Grimsby 0 0 0 6 7
Scunthorpe 0 1 2 7 3
Northallerton 0 0 0 1 0
York 26 3 6 41 23
Scarborough 0 0 0 0 0
Harrogate 0 4 4 18 44
Bradford 8 13 24 12 34
Airedale 4 4 4 15 7
Calderdale 12 16 17 9 19
Huddersfield 0 0 2 18 3
Dewsbury 0 0 0 0 0
Leeds Western 0 0 0 0 0
Leeds Eastern 11 g 17 12 22
Wakefield 3 9 8 48 27
Pontefract 0 0 0 0 0

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and Special Hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Trent RHA 149 125 191 210 415
North Derbyshire 4 9 2 10 27
Southern Derbyshire 29 15 22 33 31
Leicestershire 16 15 10 28 26
North Lincolnshire 7 13 39 18 65
South Lincolnshire 3 0 12 22 76
Bassetlaw 0 0 0 0 0
Central Nottinghamshire 16 14 23 18 87
Nottingham 9 2 3 32 33
Barnsley 0 0 0 0 2
Doncaster 0 18 13 10 7
Rotherham 9 11 35 9 11
Sheffield 56 28 32 30 50

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and Special Hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
East Anglia RHA 37 96 85 88 79
Cambridge 2 15 8 15 4
Peterborough 2 2 1 6 0

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
West Suffolk 2 22 1 5 26
East Suffolk 5 6 20 22 18
Norwich 16 47 39 24 29
Great Yarmouth and Waveney 5 2 8 9 2
West Norfolk and Wisbech 5 2 8 7 0
Huntingdon 0 0 0 0 0

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and Special Hospitals.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
North West Thames RHA 72 77 84 83 70
North Bedfordshire 5 8 10 15 18
South Bedfordshire 0 0 1 0 1
North Hertfordshire 0 0 0 0 0
East Hertfordshire 0 0 0 0 0
North West Hertfordshire 40 27 39 32 38
South West Hertfordshire 23 19 18 30 11
Barnet 2 15 9 0 0
Harrow 0 0 0 0 0
Hillingdon 0 0 0 0 0
Hounslow and Spelthorne 0 0 0 0 0
Eating 0 0 0 0 0
Brent 2 7 7 6 2
Paddington and North Kensington 0 1 0 0 0
Riverside 0 0 0 0 0

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and Special Hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
North East Thames
RHA 47 42 90 111 71
Basildon and Thurrock 16 20 26 23 29
Mid Essex 2 1 3 3 2
North East Essex 17 2 32 32 29
West Essex 0 1 0 0 1
Southend 0 0 0 0 0
Barking, Havering and Brentwood 0 3 23 43 5
Hampstead 0 0 0 0 0
Bloomsbury 0 0 0 0 0
Islington 0 0 0 0 0
City and Hackney 0 2 2 4 0
Newham 0 0 0 0 0
Tower Hamlets 1 0 0 0 0
Enfield 0 3 1 0 3
Haringey 0 0 0 0 1
Redbridge 0 0 0 0 0
Waltham Forest 11 10 3 6 1

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and Special Hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
South East Thames RHA 110 136 203 258 354
Brighton 3 5 5 21 26
Eastbourne 8 6 15 3 14
Hastings 11 7 18 16 6
South East Kent 0 3 8 6 5
Canterbury and Thanet 15 35 28 33 33
Dartford and Gravesham 45 28 44 73 156
Maidstone 0 0 2 27 13
Medway 0 0 0 0 0
Tunbridge Wells 20 30 64 62 81
Bexley 0 0 0 0 0
Greenwich 2 0 2 7 9
Bromley 4 15 1 2 1
West Lambeth 0 0 0 0 0
Camberwell 0 0 0 0 0
Lewisham and North Southwark 2 7 16 8 10

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and Special Hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
South West Thames RHA 74 120 144 189 297
North West Surrey 1 6 32 20 27
West Surrey and North East Hants 0 2 1 3 3
South West Surrey 0 0 2 0 0
Mid Surrey 19 39 0 12 24
East Surrey 7 20 29 14 33
Chichester 1 2 1 0 0
Mid Downs 1 5 4 10 4
Worthing 0 4 1 1 0
Croydon 15 12 18 76 157
Kingston and Esher 0 0 0 0 0
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 2 5 3 2 13
Wandsworth 1 1 2 0 0
Merton and Sutton 27 24 51 51 36

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and Special Hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Wessex RHA 84 139 126 119 206
East Dorset 0 0 1 10 2
West Dorset 0 16 4 9 27
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 28 61 42 30 22
Southampton and South West Hampshire 18 24 28 32 58
Winchester 0 0 1 11 40
Basingstoke and North Hampshire 0 7 21 2 11
Salisbury 0 0 1 2 0
Swindon 17 5 21 8 10
Bath District 12 13 4 7 5
Isle of Wight 9 13 3 8 31

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals or Special Hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Oxford RHA 44 62 65 92 104
East Berkshire 5 10 5 5 1
West Berkshire 12 22 17 18 24
Aylesbury Vale 8 6 5 18 7
Wycombe 0 0 0 0 0
Milton Keynes 0 0 0 0 0
Kettering 1 2 1 0 0
Northampton 5 6 6 8 16
Oxfordshire 13 16 31 43 56

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and Special Hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
South Western RHA 123 168 410 251 193
Bristol and Weston 2 16 36 9 8
Frenchay 5 29 75 32 33
Southmead 12 33 80 42 22
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 22 11 34 37 16
Exeter 40 57 123 59 56
North Devon 1 0 4 1 0
Plymouth 4 4 2 5 1
Torbay 3 2 19 31 10
Cheltenham 0 0 0 0 0
Gloucester 10 5 13 3 12
Somerset 23 11 24 32 35

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and Special Hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
West Midlands RHA 138 156 107 137 151
Bromsgrove and Redditch 0 0 0 0 8
Herefordshire 3 0 1 0 2
Kidderminster and District 41 41 25 50 36
Worcester and District 0 0 0 0 0
Shropshire 0 0 0 1 0
Mid Staffordshire 3 0 1 0 3
North Staffordshire 13 14 6 13 8
South East Staffordshire 0 0 0 0 0
Rugby 0 0 0 0 0
North Warwickshire 30 35 21 29 37
South Warwickshire 1 10 5 14 6
Central Birmingham 0 0 0 0 0
East Birmingham 0 0 0 0 0
North Birmingham 0 0 0 0 0
South Birmingham 5 20 26 10 9
West Birmingham 0 0 0 0 0
Coventry 0 0 0 0 0
Dudley 8 5 3 7 14
Sandwell 0 0 0 0 0
Solihull 3 3 5 3 4
Walsall 31 25 14 10 24
Wolverhampton 0 0 0 0 0

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and Special hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Mersey RHA 83 102 119 98 132
Chester 0 2 0 0 0
Crewe 18 19 15 21 17

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Halton 0 2 2 5 2
Macclesfield 5 5 13 10 30
Warrington 4 17 57 35 27
Liverpool 0 0 0 0 0
St. Helens and Knowsley 0 0 0 0 0
Southport and Forsby 50 31 15 12 23
South Sefton 0 0 0 0 0
Wirral 0 14 3 4 14

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and special hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

District of treatment 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
North Western RHA 105 101 96 144 141
Lancaster 36 26 26 42 33
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 0 0 0 0 0
Preston 0 0 0 0 0
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 31 46 24 52 34
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 29 22 40 43 45
West Lancashire 2 4 4 0 9
Chorley and South Ribble 0 0 0 0 0
Bolton 0 0 0 0 0
Bury 0 0 0 0 0
North Manchester 0 0 0 0 0
Central Manchester 0 0 0 0 0
South Manchester 0 0 0 0 0
Oldham 0 0 0 0 0
Rochdale 0 0 0 0 0
Salford 2 1 2 0 0
Stockport 5 2 0 7 16
Tameside and Glossop 0 0 0 0 0
Trafford 0 0 0 0 0
Wigan 0 0 0 0 0

Notes:

(1) Excludes deaths and transfers to other hospitals and special hospitals.

(2) Long stay are those patients discharged after a stay of one year or more.

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