§ Dr. Lynne JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if the quarterly monitoring of mental health information by the NHS executive in the coming year will include readmission rates for individual patients. [23550]
§ Mr. BowisNo. The national health service executive will be collecting information on the total number of patients aged 16 to 64, who are readmitted as an emergency within 90 days of discharge to the care of a psychiatric specialist; and the total number of patients aged 16 to 64 who have been discharged in the previous 90 days from the care of a psychiatric specialist.