§ 25. Mr. Liptonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many patients are now at Broadmoor because of sexual offences; and what therapeutic treatment they receive.
§ Mr. AlisonI am informed that 116 patients now in Broadmoor have committed offences involving assaults of a60W troduced from Sunday for a limited period. The other offers made in the discussions are now withdrawn.
"I regard this reversion to the long day—even for a limited period—as a retrograde step, and I have agreed to it only in order to avoid a situation of confusion arising at the end of this week from which the patients would be the main sufferers. The long day hampers development of enlightened therapeutic policies and is not in the interests of the patients. I am much concerned that nurses, including student nurses, on the staff of a hospital of this sort of which I am the manager, should be on duty with only short meal breaks every alternate day from before 8 in the morning to nearly 10 at night. The reversion I have authorised is for a limited period only. I hope that on reflection the nurses at Rampton will come to realise the advantages of the offer which they have at this moment rejected."