§ Mr. GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list(a) the discharges and (b) the deaths by length of stay, including percentage change in numbers and percentage distribution, of patients suffering from schizophrenia psychoses in Northern Ireland in the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe information requested is as set out:
diagnosis of schizophrenia psychoses were discharged from mental illness hospitals in Northern Ireland in the last year; and how many were admitted for a hospital stay more than once during the year.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe information requested is as follows:
Number Discharges during 1987 935 Patients admitted to psychiatric hospitals more than once during 1987 159
§ Mr. GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information he has as to how many people discharged from hospital following a main diagnosis of schizophrenia psychoses and subsequently taken by the police under the Mental Health Act to hospital have been refused admission in Northern Ireland in the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. NeedhamThis information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost from each of the psychiatric units in Northern Ireland.
§ Mr. GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what research projects his Department is funding in the current year to test the effectiveness of community care for people suffering from schizophrenia psychoses; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. NeedhamNone.
§ Mr. GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people with a main diagnosis 121W of schizophrenia psychoses were discharged from mental illness hospitals in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years; and how many of them were taken into local authority residential care.
§ Mr. NeedhamInformation requested on discharges is as set out:
Year Number of discharges 1987 935 1986 981 1985 1,120 1984 1,096 1983 1,037 Information on the number of discharged patients taken into statutory residential care is not available centrally.
§ Mr. GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information he has as to how many of those convicted of crimes in Northern Ireland in each of the last two years had previously been admitted to National Health Service mental hospitals with a main diagnosis of schizophrenia psychoses.
§ Mr. Ian StewartThe information sought is not available in the form requested. However, in Northern Ireland the number of offenders who were made subject to restriction orders under article 47 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 and were thereby detained in hospital for treatment for schizophrenia pychoses in each of the last two years was as follows:
Number 1986 3 1987 1
§ Mr. GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) how much was spent in Northern Ireland in the last year on the care and treatment of patients suffering from schizophrenia; and what percentage that figure represented of total expenditure on(a) mental and (b) all health services;
(2) what is the current annual cost per patient to the National Health Service in Northern Ireland of the care and treatment of patients with a main diagnosis of schizophrenia psychoses;
(3) what information he has as to how many people discharged from mental illness hospitals in Northern Ireland in the last year after a main diagnosis of schizophrenia psychoses having been proved vulnerable homeless subsequently became voluntary homeless.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe information is not available.
§ Mr. GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what representations he has received in the last year on the provision of community care for patients suffering from schizophrenia psychoses discharged from National Health Service mental hospitals; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe director of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship has written to me seeking my support for early-day motions concerning hospital closures and the provision of appropriate community122W services for sufferers from schizophrenia who have been discharged from hospital. I replied explaining that no hospital closures were planned in Northern Ireland and that additional community services were being developed to support the needs of discharged patients. I stressed the importance of active co-operation between the statutory and voluntary sectors in creating the necessary community services.