Hospital Social Workers (Hansard, 8 February 1995)

§ Mr. Hinchliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Health under what circumstances a hospital social worker would be expected to undertake the role of keyworker for an individual.

§ Mr. Bowis
It may be agreed, as part of the arrangements for a psychiatric patient's discharge under the care programme approach, for a hospital social worker to be his key worker.

§ Mr. Hinchliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she is taking to monitor the level of referrals to hospital social workers.

§ Mr. Bowis
It depends on the referral of whom or what.

§ Mr. Hinchliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many social workers were based in hospitals in 1993.

§ Mr. Bowis
The number of social work staff directly employed by local authority social services departments in hospitals and other health related settings in September 1993 is given in "Local Authority Social Services Statistics: Staff of Local Authority Social Services Departments at 30 September 1993; England", copies of which are available in the Library.