HC Deb 21 February 1991 vol 186 c227W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make it his policy to collect central information for all national health service patients in Scotland who, having been discharged from national health service hospitals, required subsequent hospitalisation for(a) the same complaint or (b) a different but related complaint.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

Arrangements are already in train to provide this kind of information through record

Community psychiatric nurses at 31 March 1989–30 September 1990
Whole time equivalent
March 1989 September 1989 March 1990 September 19901
Argyll and Clyde 1.0
Ayrshire and Arran 22.0 21.0 22.0 25.0
Borders 10.0
Dumfries and Galloway 14.0 14.0
Fife
Forth Valley
Grampian
Greater Glasgow 0.7
Highland 15.0
Lanarkshire
Lothian 6.0 32.0 28.0 30.0
Orkney
Shetland 1.0 2.0
Tayside
Western Isles
Scotland 29.0 53.0 64.0 97.7
1 Provisional.

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