HC Deb 18 January 1994 vol 235 c527W
Dr. Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will order independent inquiries into every death caused by patients discharged under medication from mental illness hospitals.

Mr. Bowis

New guidance to the national health service on the discharge of psychiatric patients, issued for consultation on 12 January, states that it will always be necessary to hold an inquiry which is independent of service providers in cases of homicides involving mentally ill people.

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