HC Deb 22 July 1974 vol 877 cc368-9W
Mr. Moonman

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what information concerning patients discharged from psychiatric hospitals is centrally available and if hospital record cards are used to compute this information.

Dr. Owen

Details of the arrangements under which hospitals provide information about such patients to my Department are described in the Introduction and Appendix A to my Department's Statistical and Research Report Series Paper No. 6, a copy of which I am sending to my hon. Friend.