§ Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the financial position of the Manchester Mental Health Trust. [184738]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested on the financial situation of the Manchester Mental Health Care Trust is not available in-year.
§ David TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of the total number of NHS in-patients is comprised of mental health in-patients who have been in hospital for more than a year. [185558]
§ Ms Rosie Winterton[holding answer 20 July]: There were 7,4401 inpatients under the care of a mental illness consultant with a length of stay of a year or longer on 31 March 2003. On the same day, the estimated number of unfinished episodes in National Health Service hospitals for all specialties was 117,5501,2.
Therefore, the estimated percentage of the total number of all national health service inpatients on 31 March 2003 comprised of by mental health inpatients who had been in hospital for more than a year is 6.3 per cent.
1The information is from Hospital Episode Statistics.Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.2 Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed).
§ David TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many in-patients have been in NHS hospitals under the care of mental health consultants for more than a year, excluding those with(a) dementia and (b) learning difficulties. [185559]
§ Ms Rosie Winterton[holding answer 20 July 2004]: This information is not available, as centrally held data on unfinished hospital episodes cannot be broken down by diagnosis.