§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will issue new guidelines to district health authorities prohibiting the admission of children and adolescent people to adult wards in national health service hospitals, particularly psychiatric wards; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. DorrellOn 22 July 1991 we published a good practice guide "the Welfare of Children and Young People in Hospital," a copy of which is available in the Library. It re-emphasises the need to treat children and adolescents, including those requiring psychiatric care, in discrete accommodation separate from adults.