HC Deb 11 December 1996 vol 287 cc227-8W
Dr. Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how the NHS executive's regional office network monitors the mental health services' implementation of the care programme approach; and if the results of the monitoring are publicly available. [8263]

Mr. Burns

Implementation of the care programme approach is monitored via quarterly returns made by health authorities to the national health service executive.

The results of the monitoring are not routinely published.

Dr. Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 4 November,Official Report, columns 397–98, what was the average length of the previous stay in hospital of the 5,000 patients aged 16 to 64 years readmitted as emergencies within 90 days of discharge. [8259]

Mr. Burns

The information requested is not available centrally.

Dr. Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 31 October,Official Report, column 197, what schemes for (i) residential and (ii) 24-hour nursed care accommodation for mentally ill patients under 65 years are currently being negotiated under the private finance initiative. [8257]

Mr. Horam

All capital schemes have to be tested for private finance. The table shows those schemes with a capital value of £1 million or more that are currently, or will be, tested for private finance and which are wholly or partly for 24-hour nursed care or residential accommodation for mentally ill patients under 65. Information on smaller schemes is not held centrally.

Trust Scheme
Addenbrooke's NHS Trust Mental Health Strategy Phase 2
Aylesbury Vale Community Healthcare NHS Trust Mental Health Intensive Care Unit
Mid-Anglia Community Health NHS Trust Acute mental Health—Ward G8
North West Anglia Healthcare NHS Trust Mental Health Reprovision
Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare NHS Trust Medium Secure Unit

Trust Scheme
South Bedfordshire Community Healthcare NHS Trust Fairfield Reprovision
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust Integrated Acute Psychiatric Services
Guild Community Healthcare NHS Trust Medium Secure Unit
Calderstones NHS Trust Medium Secure Unit
Portsmouth Healthcare NHS Trust Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Schemes
Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust Inpatient Mental Health Scheme
Black Country Mental Health NHS Trust Acute Psychiatric Unit
Northern Birmingham Mental Health Services NHS Trust Reprovision of Community Based Facilities
Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust Project 2002
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust Reprovision of Mental Illness and Health Services
BHB Community Healthcare NHS Trust Long Stay mental Health Reprovision
Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust Mental Health Reprovision
Riverside Mental Health NHS Trust Long Stay Mental Health Reprovision
Leeds Community and Mental Health Services Teaching NHS Trust Reprovision of Mental Health Services
South Durham Healthcare NHS Trust New Acute Mental Health Facilities
South Durham Healthcare NHS Trust 25 Bed Facility with Treatment Suites
Leeds Community and Mental Health Services Teaching NHS Trust Seacroft Mental Health Unit
Calderdale Healthcare NHS Trust Centralisation of Acute Hospital Services
Community Healthcare: North Durham NHS Trust Facilities for Difficult to Place Patients
Chichester Priority Services NHS Trust Graylingwell Reprovision
Hastings and Rother NHS Trust Mental Health Reprovision
North Downs Community Health NHS Trust Farnham Hospital Development
Surrey Heartlands NHS Trust West Park Hospital Reprovision
Worthing Priority Care NHS Trust Homefield Hospital Redevelopment
North Kent Healthcare NHS Trust Sheppey Community Hospital
Oxleas NHS Trust Bexley Hospital Reprovision
Lewisham and Guys Mental Health NHS Trust Adolescent Psychiatry Unit
Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital

Dr. Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to discuss with the Royal College of Psychiatrists the reasons for the readmission of 5,000 patients aged 16 to 64 years to hospitals as emergencies within 90 days of previous discharge between April and June 1996. [8261]

Mr. Burns

None.

Dr. Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many psychiatric patients aged between 16 and 64 years who were discharged from hospital in the period from July to September were readmitted to hospital within 90 days of discharge or by the present date. [8260]

Mr. Burns

From the information collected centrally it is not possible to identify how many of the psychiatric patients aged 16 to 64 who were discharged during the period July to September have subsequently been readmitted as emergencies.

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