Mental Health Care (Hansard, 7 December 1993)

§ Mr. McCartney

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) in relation to each regional health authority area in England how many mentally ill patients from that region were in low security places on 30 June; how many of those patients were in private sector facilities; how many patients were waiting for a community place; and how many of the patients were, in the opinion of their responsible medical officer, fit to move to a community place;

(2) in relation to each regional health authority area in England how many people with learning disabilities are assessed as (a) requiring treatment or care in high security, (b) requiring treatment or care in medium security and (c) requiring treatment or care in low security; how many such people are currently detained in (d) high security, (e) medium security and (f) low security, in relation to those currently detained in secure facilities; how many are currently considered to be in unsuitable facilities; and how many are being cared for in secure private facilities;

(3) in relation to each regional health authority area in England what is the estimated number of people in the region assessed as needing treatment for psychopathic disorder; how many of these detained in secure NHS psychiatric facilities, or in other NHS psychiatric facilities as in-patients, are in touch with other NHS psychiatric facilities as outpatients, or are in local social services authority facilities; how many are in prison; and how many are in private sector health care or other facilities;

(4) in relation to each regional health authority area in England how many mentally ill patients from each region were in medium secure provision on 30 June; how many were in private sector facilities; how many were waiting for admission to less secure accommodation and how many waiting to be discharged to a community place; and how many were, in the opinion of their responsible medical officer, fit to move to less secure accommodation;

(5) in relation to each regional health authority area in England, how many mentally ill patients from each region were in special hospitals on 30 June and which special hospitals they were in; how many of the patients detained in special hospitals were, in the opinion of their responsible medical officer, ready to move to less secure accommodation; how many patients from each region were authorised for discharge but remained in the special hospital; how long each of these patients had been waiting for discharge; what had prevented discharge in each case; what 194W arrangements are in place to ensure that patients in special hospitals are able to be discharged within a year of discharge being authorised; and how these arrangements will be developed to meet the six month maximum waiting time referred to in the NHS planning guidance for 1994–95.