HC Deb 01 May 1980 vol 983 cc677-8W
Mr. McQuade

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many

Hospital Location 1976 1977 1978
Ards Psychoneurosis Unit Newtownards 5 1 2
Craigavon Psychoneurosis Unit Craigavon 11 18 8
Downshire Psychoneurosis Unit Downpatrick 44 39 23
Holywell Psychoneurosis Unit Antrim 212 206 179
Whiteabbey Psychoneurosis Unit Whiteabbey 1 1
Gransha Psychoneurosis Unit Londonderry 1
Purdysburn Psychoneurosis Unit Belfast 45 60 51
St. Luke's Psychoneurosis Unit Armagh 2 5 1
Tyrone and Fermanagh Psychoneurosis Unit Omagh 1 1 1
Windsor House Psychoneurosis Unit Belfast 24 28 18
Shaftsbury Square Hospital for Alcoholics Belfast 14 11 9
359 370 293

A review of hospital services, including psychiatric services, is now under way in the Eastern health and social services board area. Until this, and a current review of the catchment areas of psychiatric hospitals in Northern Ireland, is completed, no decision can be taken on the

each year for the same period; and what was the amount and type of Government grants paid out in each year to promote new jobs and to prevent wastage.

Mr. Giles Shaw

The information is as follows:

psychiatric patients from the Lisburn district were admitted to psychiatric hospitals each year for the past five years; what was the name and location of each hospital; and if he will take steps to provide a local psychiatric unit at the Lagan Valley hospital.

Mr. Alison

The information requested could be obtained for 1974 and 1975 only at disproportionate cost. However, in 1976, 1977, 1978 the number of admissions and readmissions to psychiatric hospitals of patients living in the Lisburn health and social services district was as follows:

need for a local psychiatric unit at the Lagan Valley hospital.

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