HC Deb 01 April 1996 vol 275 cc48-50W
Dr. Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list(a) the location, by health authority, of the water tower mental hospitals in England which are still open, (b) their planned date of closure and (c) the number of patients in each at the latest available date. [23546]

Mr. Bowis

Information is available on the closure of large mental illness hospitals in the report "Survey of English Mental Hospitals March 1994—Monitoring the Closure of the Water Towers", copies of which are available in the Library. The available information on the number of patients cared for in each of the hospitals named in table 2 of the report is given in the table. The continuing monitoring of the closure programme has been taken forward by the regional offices of the national health service executive.

NHS Hospitals in table 2 of the Survey of English Mental Illness Hospitals March 1994 Monitoring the closure of the "Water Towers": Numbers of In-patients at 31 March 1994
Hospital In-patients all ages
Barnsley Hall 57
Clifton 100
Coney Hill 168
Hollymoor 185
Mapperley 195
St. Francis, Nottingham 38
St. George's, Stafford 147
NHS Hospitals in table 2 of the Survey of English Mental Illness Hospitals March 1994 Monitoring the closure of the "Water Towers": Numbers of In-patients at 31 March 1994
Hospital In-patients all ages
St. Crispin 121
Scalebor Park 35
Central 95
Claybury 361
Countess of Chester 179
Hill End 153
Maidstone 115
Netherne 57
Princess Royal 154
Roundway 99
St. George's (Morpeth) 312
St. Mary's (Northumberland) 247
St. Matthew's 157
Stanley Royd 277
Tone Vale 117
Tooting Bec 96
Whittingham 153
St. Nicholas' (Newcastle) 214
Brookwood 311
Carlton Hayes 249
Littlemore 172
Middlewood 116
Napsbury 419
Shenley 424
The Royal London Hospital (St. Clements) 99
Warlingham Park 143
All Saints 261
Parkside 249
Knowle 184
Fair Mile 212
De la Pole 246
Fairfield 415
Fulbourn 301
Goodmayes 401
High Royds 346
Horton 329
Lancaster Moor and Ridge Lea 314
Park Prewett 245
Runwell 320
Severalls 218
St. Edward's 254
St. Lawrence's 206
Warley 534
Winterton 375
Bexley 241
Cherry Knowle 320
Garlands 182
Rauceby 173
Towers 163
Winwick 398
Graylingwell 249
St. Andrew's (Norwich) 168
Springfield 429
St. James' 204
St. Luke's 140
St. Clement's (Ipswich) 190
Stone House 98
Wonford House 116
Highcroft 132
West Park 358
Barrow 212
Bootham Park 107
Ealing 327
Hellesdon 258
Henderson 24
Kingsway 285
Lynfield Mount 119
Maudsley 217
Old Manor 145
Prestwich 337
NHS Hospitals in table 2 of the Survey of English Mental Illness Hospitals March 1994 Monitoring the closure of the "Water Towers": Numbers of In-patients at 31 March 1994
Hospital In-patients all ages
Royal Shrewsbury (Shelton) 197
St. Martin's 120
Sundridge 48
The Bethlem Royal 180
Warneford 70