§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will ask the Mersey Regional Health Authority to collect the facts about patient violence in hospitals, with separate figures for casualty departments for the last two years; and if he will publish the results in comparison with the other results he has received.
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§ Mr. MoyleMersey Regional Health Authority has already collected some information on this matter and I shall ensure that, along with information from other regions, it is taken fully into account by my Department in the course of the national discussions which I mentioned in my reply to the hon. Member on 19th January.—[Vol. 942, c.325–6.]