§ 31. Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many beds there are in the psychiatric hospital run by a private company to which he announced his visit on 21 November; what is his estimate of the occupancy of National Health Service hospital beds by psychiatric patients; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinI understand there are 51 beds in the charter clinic which I shall be visiting in January. The average daily bed occupancy of NHS mental illness beds in 1978 was 77,402.