§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what special training is now offered to general practitioners in furtherance of the policy of caring for mentally ill people in the community; and how many additional support workers, such as community psychiatric nurses and psychologists, will be attached to group practices in the next five years.
§ Mr. John PattenTraining in psychiatry is available to general medical practitioners under regionally arranged programmes of continuing education courses; doctors themselves decide which courses to attend. Numbers of clinical psychologists and community psychiatric nurses in the Health Service are increasing but their deployment is solely for health authorities locally to decide.