Mr. Robert G. HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the case of Kevin Rooney.
§ Mr. DorrellAn independent inquiry has been established by the North East Thames regional health authority. The chairman is Mr. Andrew Collins QC. The other members are Dr. Oscar Hill, consultant psychiatrist, St. Luke's Woodside hospital, and Mr. Michael Taylor, director of social services, London borough of Hillingdon. The committee will seek other professional advice as the need arises.
The terms of reference are:
To inquire into the arrangements for the assessment, care, discharge and follow-up of Mr. Kevin Rooney by the mental health and related services in City and Hackney Health Authority and North East Thames Region;To consider the adequacy of these arrangements;To report their findings and to recommend any action which, in the light of these, might assist the assessment and care of mentally disordered patients and the protection of those patients and the public from the risk of harm.The committee has been asked to report by July 1992.