§ Mr. ButcherTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 11 February,Official Report, column 161, if he will investigate Coventry's half-way house pilot scheme to determine whether the allocation of patients to residential and nursing care home placements under the scheme is impartial, as between the profit and non-profit sector. [17054]
§ Mr. BurnsThe placement of patients leaving the Coventry half-way house pilot scheme will be arranged in accordance with current national guidelines for the discharge of patients from national health service care and placements in residential accommodation. The scheme is due to end in May, when a full evaluation, including the views of patients, their families, carers and local general practitioners, will be carried out by Coventry health authority, the community health council and the Coventry department of social services.