§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will seek a report from the mental health task force regarding the steps that are being taken to close Stanley Royd hospital, Wakefield; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. BowisWakefield was one of 20 district health authorities visited recently by the mental health task force to see how purchasers and providers were approaching the replacement of the large hospitals and to draw out good practice.
The task force will issue an overview report shortly. The reprovision of the facilities at Stanley Royd is being monitored by the task force along with all the other long-stay mental illness hospitals.
Wakefield health authority and the Pontefract and Wakefield community trust are working closely with other local organisations to develop a range of residential facilities, day care, community units for the elderly and acute facilities which will enable the residents of Stanley Royd hospital to be cared for within the community and for the hospital to close in 1995. There was full consultation on the reprovision of mental illness services last year.