§ Mr. MaddenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will appoint an independent inquiry into how a patient admitted to the secure unit located at Lynfield Mount hospital in Bradford escaped from the hospital grounds on 21 June; what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the security arrangements at the secure unit and in the hospital; and what her policy is in respect of the location of secure units in residential areas.
§ Mr. BowisBradford community health national health service trust has instigated a full investigation into this matter.
Hospitals are responsible for ensuring that security of pyschiatric patients is maintained at a level consistent with the risk that they may present to themselves or to other people. The siting of national health service facilities has, since April 1991, been subject to the normal requirements of town and country planning legislation.
Table 1 General Dental Services, adult and child patients deregistered, the number of dentists deregistering patients from week ending 3 July 1992 to 1 April 1994 and the number of additions to dentists' registers1 during July 1992 to March 1994, by region. England Region Number of patients deregistered Number of1 additions to dentists' registers Dentists deregistering 2adults Dentists deregistering 2children England 659,134 21,119,080 2,392 246 Northern 20,038 1,486,949 52 14 Yorkshire 34,368 1,661,152 220 27 Trent 40,485 1,976,989 159 19 East Anglia 41,987 861,961 113 9 North West Thames 17,324 1,692,096 103 6 North East Thames 23,342 1,875,752 121 16 South East Thames 88,521 1,670,670 280 18 South West Thames 68,196 1,275,543 143 1 Wessex 63,590 1,152,992 123 1 Oxford 75,831 1,045,617 252 4 South Western 115,719 1,426,337 333 33 West Midlands 29,168 2,028,579 121 13 Mersey 8,665 1,123,464 107 6 North Western 31,900 1,840,979 265 79 Source: Department of Health
1Includes transfers of patients from one dentist to another and inclusions on a dentist's list of a former patient whose registration had lapsed.
2Some dentists will have deregistered adults and child patients and will appear in both columns.