§ 45. Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is satisfied with the rate of progress in transferring patients from special hospitals to National Health Service hospitals and units.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinI am anxious that there should be an improvement in the rate of transfer of special hospital patients to NHS hospitals, and I am especially worried about those who have been on the waiting list for two years or more. It was particularly with these difficult to place cases in mind that I wrote to regional health authority chairmen last November. I am encouraged by the responses I have so far received from chairmen and I shall continue to monitor progress of transfers very closely.