§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many people have been released into the community under the community care programme;
(2) how many people released into the community under the community care programme have (a) committed suicide, (b) been arrested, (c) died as a result of an accident and (d) been seriously injured as a result of an accident.
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§ Mr. FreemanFigures are not collected centrally on the number of inpatients who have been discharged under the community care programme, nor the outcome of those people once in the community.
However, during 1986, the latest year for which reliable figures are available, 1,082 inpatients of mental illness hospitals and units in England were discharged (excluding deaths and tranfers to other hospitals) after a stay of five years or more. The comparable figure for mental handicap patients was 1,951.