§ Ms PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many mentally ill patients were treated(a) in the community and (b) as in-patients, for each of the last five years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesInformation in the exact form requested is not available centrally. However, the available information is given in the following table.
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Discharges and deaths1 Resident patients2 First contacts by community psychiatric nurses3 1987–88 14,157 43,952 — 1988–89 14,289 — — 1989–90 15,000 43,577 — 1990–91 15,094 53,348 24,984 1991–92 16,236 53,013 22,629 1 Deaths and discharges of in-patients from NHS hospitals. This does not relate to the number of people treated as one person may have been discharged more than once during the year. Includes people treated in the specialities of mental illness, child and adolescent psychiatry, forensic psychiatry and old age psychiatry.
2 Patients resident in mental illness hospitals and units in Wales on the day an annual census was taken. This will not include patients who although resident at some time during the year were not resident on the date of the census.
3 Information was not collected centrally prior to 1990–91. This does not include patients cared for by other groups of staff (ie GPs and social workers) and voluntary organisations for which no information is collected centrally.
4 At 5 April.
5 At 31 March.
Total gross expenditure on new construction improvement and maintenance (Wales) Expenditure in Clwyd Expenditure in Gwynedd Expenditure in Powys £ million £ million per cent. £ million per cent. £ million per cent. 1990–91 184.9 22.0 11.9 75.2 40.7 14.4 7.8 1991–92 171.0 24.7 14.4 62.6 36.6 11.0 6.4 1992–93 204.5 16.3 8.0 54.3 26.6 14.1 6.9