HC Deb 31 March 1987 vol 113 cc496-9W
Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list by district health authority and by local authority (a) the number of people placed by them in private psychiatric units on a day care basis, (b) the number of people placed by them in private psychiatric

Patients receiving treatment under contractual arrangements with institutions outside the National Health Service—mental illness specialty—discharges and deaths.
Health authority1 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
Northallerton 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
York (North Yorkshire AHA) 41 44 49 52 35 47 54
Barnsley 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Leicestershire 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Peterborough 0 0 0 0 1 3 2
East Hertfordshire (Hertfordshire AHA) 10 2 0 0 0 2 0
City and Hackney 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Newnham 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Tower Hamlets 0 0 0 1 2 4 9
Haringey 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Hampstead 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Medway 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
West Surrey and North East Hants. 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
South West Surrey 0 0 0 3 1 0 0
Mid Downs 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Worthing 0 0 0 2 4 3 4
East Dorset (Dorset AHA) 0 0 4 2 4 3 3
Salisbury 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
East Berkshire (Berkshire AHA) 0 1 0 0 0 0 3
West Berkshire (Berkshire AHA) 0 1 0 0
Aylesbury Vale (Buckinghamshire AHA) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Wycombe (Buckinghamshire AHA) 0 1 0 0
Milton Keynes 0 0 0 0 0 0 I
Northampton (Northampton AHA) 51 51 34 58 42 34 32
Kettering (Northampton AHA) 0 2 1 1
Central Manchester (North Western RHA and Manchester AHA) 554 519 274 351 347 378 454
Tameside and Glossop (North Western RHA and Manchester AHA) 0 0 96 73
Total—England 656 617 361 474 441 573 651
1 Authorities making contractual arrangements prior to NHS reorganisation in 1982 are shown in parentheses.

Patients receiving treatment under contractual arrangements with institutions outside the National Health Service—mental illness specially—occupied beds.1
Health authority 2 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
Northallerton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.7
York (North Yorkshire AHA) 15 18 16 16 12 10 12.0
Leeds Western 0 0 0 0 0 1 1.0
Leicestershire 0 0 0 0 0 1 1.0
Barnsley 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.7
Peterborough 0 0 0 0 3 0 1.4
Huntingdon 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Hounslow and Spelthorne 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
East Hertfordshire (Hertfordshire AHA) 5 2 0 0 0 1 0.0
City and Hackney 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.0
Newham 6 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Tower Hamlets 0 0 0 1 1 1 3.0
Haringey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1
Waltham Forest 0 0 0 3 4 0 0.0
Brighton 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.0
Lewisham and North Southwark 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 0 0 0 2 1 1 0.0
South West Surrey 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.0
Mid Downs 0 0 0 0 1 4 2.0
Worthing 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.3
East Dorset (Dorset AHA) 0 0 4 4 5 4 4.4
Winchester 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.0
Salisbury 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.0
East Berkshire (Berkshire AHA) 3 2 1 0 0 1 3.8

units as residential patients and (c) the average length of stay for each patient placed in residential care in private psychiatric units for each year since 1979.

Mrs. Currie

[pursuant to her reply, 6 March 1987, c. 722]: 1 am sorry I cannot give the hon. Member the Information he seeks in precisely the form requested. The information available centrally is given in the tables.

Health authority2 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
Aylesbury Vale (Buckinghamshire AHA) 2 1 3 1 0 0 0.0
Milton Keynes 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.1
Northampton (Northampton AHA) 37 34 33 30 30 28 23.0
Kettering (Northampton AHA) 2 1 0 0.0
Central Manchester (North Western RHA and Manchester AHA) 71 54 58 72 39 47 49.0
Tameside and Glossop (North Western RHA and Manchester AHA) 0 0 55 59.0
Trafford (North Western RHA and Manchester AHA) 1 0 0 0.0
Total—England 133 111 115 136 99 159 173.5
1 For years 1979 to 1984 the occupied beds figures show the number of beds occupied at 31 December. For 1985 the figures relate to the average daily bed occupancy during the year.
2 Authorities making contractual arrangements prior to NHS reorganisation in 1982 are shown in parenthesis.

Patients receiving treatment under contractual arrangements with institutions outside the National Health Service—mental illness specialty—new out-patients
Health authority1 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
York (North Yorkshire AHA) 0 0 0 4 2 0 0
North Lincolnshire 0 0 0 59 4 0 0
Cambridge 0 0 0 0 19 23 138
Aylesbury Vale (Buckinghamshire AHA) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Wycombe (Buckinghamshire AHA)
South Warwickshire 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
North Western RHA 12 19 6 4 0 0 0
Total—England 12 20 6 67 25 24 138
1 Authorities making contractual arrangements prior to NHS reorganisation in 1982 are shown in parentheses.

Patients receiving treatment under contractual arrangements with institutions outside the National Health Service—mental illness specialty—out-patient attendances
Health authority1 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
York (North Yorkshire AHA) 1 12 27 37 46 60 90
North Lincolnshire 0 0 0 153 35 0 0
Cambridge 0 0 0 0 37 116 399
Aylesbury Vale (Buckinghamshire AHA) 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
Wycombe (Buckinghamshire AHA)
South Warwickshire 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
North Western RHA 1,219 635 489 322 0 0 0
Total—England 1,220 657 516 512 118 190 489
1 Authorities making contractual arrangements prior to NHS reorganisation in 1982 are shown in parentheses.

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