§ Mr. Gristasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the number of patients released in each area health authority from psychiatric and mental hospitals and units in each of the last five years and the estimated number of such released people who required regular medical treatment following their release.
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§ Dr. OwenInformation is only available for 1974 when area health authorities were first set up, and the available
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DISCHARGES FROM MENTAL ILLNESS AND MENTAL HANDICAP HOSPITALS AND UNITS IN 1974 BY RHAAND AHA Region AHA Mental illness discharges Mental handicap discharge 01. Northern … Cleveland … 1,959 5 Cumbria … 1,389 424 Durham … 2,452 305 Northumberland … 1,012 502 Gateshead … 2.024 — South Tyneside … 387 — Sunderland … 914 — All … 10,784 1,236 02. Yorkshire … Humberside … 3,036 122 Yorkshire … 2,351 149 Bradford … 2,662 53 Calderdale … 837 70 Kirklees … 1,726 1 Leeds(T) … 2,069 101 Wakefield … 1,702 138 All … 14,383 634 03. Trent … Derbyshire … 2,047 326 Leicestershire (T) … 2,188 152 Lincolnshire … 2,290 217 Nottinghamshire (T) … 3,230 555 Barnsley … 517 — Doncaster … 1,265 136 Rotherham … — — Sheffield (T) … 2,515 215 All … 14,052 1,601 04. East Anglia … Cambridgeshire (T) … 1,369 253 Norfolk … 2,120 222 Suffolk … 1,651 74 All … 5,140 549 05. North West Thames … Bedfordshire … 1,630 50 Hertfordshire … 1,886 512 Barnet … 677 42 Brent and Harrow … 1,538 14 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (T) 3,439 — Hillingdon … 398 — Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster (T) 4,010 — All … 13,578 618 06. North East Thames … Essex … 3,511 466 Barking and Havering … 1,502 8 Camden and Islington (T) … 2,062 — City and East London (T) … 1,903 11 Enfield and Haringey … 330 — Redbridge and Waltham Forest … 3,027 168 All … 12,335 653 07. South East Thames … East Sussex … 2,564 145 Kent … 4,906 528 Greenwich and Bexley … 1,850 83 Bromley … 1,041 8 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (T) … 1,793 5 All … 12.154 769 figures relate to the number of discharges, not to individual patients discharged. The information is as follows: 425W
Region AHA Mental illness discharges Mental handicap discharges 08. South West Thames … Surrey … 3,486 220 West Sussex … 2,627 22 Croydon … 1,873 110 Kingston and Richmond … 1,165 8 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth (T) … 3,841 370 All … 12,992 730 09. Wessex … Dorset … 1,898 31 Hampshire (T) … 3,960 333 Wiltshire … 2,374 198 Isle of Wight … 497 13 All … 8,729 575 10. Oxford … Berkshire … 475 88 Buckinghamshire … 1,173 55 Northamptonshire … 1,368 580 Oxfordshire (T) … 2,640 422 All … 5,656 1,145 11. South Western … Avon (T) … 2.395 522 Cornwall … 1,577 68 Devon … 3,636 267 Gloucester … 1,080 SS60 Somerset … 1,691 169 All … 10,379 1,086 12. West Midland … Hereford and Worcester … 2,100 446 Salop … 1,296 — Staffordshire … 3,604 96 Warwickshire … 988 285 Birmingham (T) … 6,216 154 Coventry … 1,076 — Dudley … 182 15 Sandwell … — — Solihull … — — Walsall … — 89 Wolverhampton … 1,162 — All … 16,624 1,085 13. Mersey … Cheshire … 5,314 292 Liverpool (T) … 2,977 44 St. Helens and Knowsley … 443 — Sefton … 536 242 Wirral … 819 15 All … 10,089 593 14. North Western … Lancashire … 5,191 574 Bolton … 665 — Bury … 483 — Manchester (T) … 2,570 — Oldham … 891 4 Rochdale … 479 — Salford(T) … 1,725 29 Stockport … 490 75 Tameside … 323 — Trafford … 427 — Wigan … 702 — All … 13,946 682 In 1974 about 70 per cent. of patients, when discharged from mental illness hospitals or units, were recorded as being referred to various forms of further medical treatment; about 5 per cent. discharge against medical advice, and there is no information available for about 2 per cent. The remaining 23 per cent. may be assumed as reverting to their general practitioners. For the same year, the corresponding figures for mentally handicapped patients were 86 per cent., 1 per cent., 5 per cent. and 8 per cent. respectively.
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