HC Deb 03 July 1992 vol 210 cc741-3W
Ms. Richardson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and which registered abortion clinics have, since 3 July 1991, applied for a licence to provide early medical abortion services.

Mr. Sackville

The following 16 applications have been received and all have been approved.

Places approved under section 1(3) of the Abortion Act 1967 for medical termination of early pregnancy as at 1 July 1992

AMI Alexandra Hospital

  • Mill Lane
  • Cheadle
  • Cheshire
  • SK8 2PX

Blackdown Nursing Home

  • Old Milverton Lane
  • Blackdown
  • Leamington Spa
  • CV32 6RW

Calthorpe Nursing Home

  • 4 Arthur Road
  • Edgbaston
  • Birmingham
  • B15 2UL

Danum Lodge Nursing Home

  • 123 Thorne Road
  • Doncaster
  • DN2 5QB

Dean Park Nursing Home

  • 23–25 Ophir Road
  • Bournemouth
  • BH8 8LS

Fallodon Private Nursing Home

  • 4 Allerton Park
  • Leeds
  • LS7 4ND

Fairfield Nursing Home

  • 88 Russell Road
  • Buckhurst Hill
  • Essex
  • IG9 5QB

Marie Stopes Nursing Home

  • 10 Manstone Road
  • London
  • NW2 3XG

Merseyside Nursing Home

  • 32 Parkfield Road
  • Liverpool
  • LI7 8UJ

Park View Clinic

  • 87 Mattock Lane
    • 742
  • Ealing
  • London
  • W5 5BJ

Raleigh Nursing Home

  • 1A Raleigh Gardens
  • Brixton Hill
  • London
  • SW2 6AB

Robert Clinic

  • 162 Station Road
  • Kings Norton
  • Birmingham
  • B30 1DB

Rosslyn Nursing Home

  • 15–17 Rosslyn Road
  • East Twickenham
  • Middlesex
  • TW 1 2AR

South Manchester Private Clinic

  • 136 Chester Road
  • Hazel Grove
  • Stockport
  • SK7 6HE

St. Anns Hospital

  • St. Anns Road London
  • N15 3TH

Wistons Nursing Home

  • 138 Dyke Road
  • Brighton
  • Sussex
  • BN1 5PA

Ms. Richardson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance her Department is providing to registered abortion clinics and national health service hospitals which are offering early medical abortion services; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Sackville

Departmental guidance about day-care arrangements for medical termination of early pregnancy has been issued to places approved under section 1(3) of the Abortion Act 1967. In addition, the manufacturer's data sheet for the drug mifegyne—mifepristone, which is known as RU 486—and its patient information leaflet fully explain the procedure for this medical method of termination of pregnancy up to nine weeks—63 days—gestation. Both the manufacturer's data sheet and the patient information leaflet are approved by the Medicines Control Agency as part of the licensing procedure. Where abortion is to be performed, the decision whether to use a medical method is one for the doctor and woman concerned.

Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when her inspectors last inspected(a) the Raleigh nursing home and (b) the Marie Stopes nursing home; how many times each have been inspected since they were approved under section 1(3) of the Abortion Act 1967; and what was their date of approval under that section.

Mr. Sackville

The Raleigh and Marie Stopes nursing homes were last visited in May 1992 and November 1991 respectively. The former was first approved in March 1973 and the latter in November 1981. Since those dates at least two visits a year have been made to each place.

Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what account her Department takes of any financial interest involved when private clinics conduct abortions referred by or certified in whole or in part, by doctors working for the clinic or any advice centre financially linked to the clinic.

Mr. Sackville

All places approved under section 1(3) of the Abortion Act 1967 are required by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to notify her of any financial arrangements between them and any medical practitioner, pregnancy advice bureau or referral agency, and to report any changes to existing financial arrangements. This is one of the matters examined in the course of unannounced visits by the Department's officers.

Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the answer on 29 June,Official Report, column 446, if she will now give the names of directors and names of companies owning or managing private abortion clinics together with the names of any parent subsidiary companies.

Mr. Sackville

The hon. Member can obtain the published information from Companies house.

Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of abortions performed at the Raleigh nursing home and the Marie Stopes nursing home were certified by doctors working at either nursing home or the Well Woman centre, Marie Stopes house.

Mr. Sackville

This information is not held by the Department.

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