§ Dr. Lynne JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she will introduce a system of performance management for mental health review tribunals, including 299W a mechanism for the feedback to tribunal members concerning the outcome for patients they have discharged from their sections under the Mental Health Act 1983.
§ Mr. BowisThe work of mental health review tribunal members in England is monitored by the eight regional chairmen of the tribunals. This was described in the tribunal's annual report for 1993, a copy of which is available in the Library. Regional chairmen have agreed that it would be useful for members to know more about the outcome for patients whom they discharge and the Department is commissioning research into this and into decision making by tribunals.