To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the total number of readmissions to mental illness hospitals and units in each of the last 10 years.
The table provides the numbers of admissions to national health service mental illness hospitals and hospital units where these admissions are known not to be a first admission to a national health service psychiatric hospital or hospital unit. The figures relate to admissions, and not individuals, since a person may be readmitted more than once during a year.Reliable centrally collected figures by admission status for years 1987–88, 1988–89 and 1989–90 are not yet available. When figures are available they will not be directly comparable with earlier data.
| Year | Readmissions |
| 1977 | 118,792 |
| 1978 | 120,456 |
| 1979 | 120,073 |
| 1980 | 127,184 |
| 1981 | 132,893 |
| 1982 | 133,475 |
| 1983 | 138,080 |
| 1984 | 138,431 |
| 1985 | 146,895 |
| 1986 | 145,578 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the mental illness hospitals planned for closure by 1996 by the health authorities concerned with the total number of beds in each and the number of beds currently occupied by patients.
The tables show mental handicap and mental illness hospitals planned for closure over the next five years and the district health authority in which each hospital is situated. The other information requested is not held centrally.
| Table 1 | |
| Mental handicap hospitals | DHA |
| South East Thames | |
| Leybourne Grange | Maidstone (managed by Tunbridge Wells) |
| Eastry | Canterbury and Thanet |
| Grove Park | Lewisham and North Southwark |
| Laughton Lodge | Eastbourne |
| Mount Pleasant | Hastings |
| Yorkshire | |
| Brandesburten | Hull |
| Claypenny | York |
| Whixley | Harrogate |
| Stansfield | Caldergate |
| Caister | Grimsby (located in North Lincolnshire but managed by Grimsby) |
| Oxford | |
Mental handicap hospitals
| DHA
|
| Wayland Hospital | West Berkshire |
Trent
| |
| Aston Hall | Southern Derbyshire |
| Balderton | Central Nottinghamshire |
Wessex
| |
| Coldharbour | West Dorset |
| Burderop | Swindon |
| Pewsey | Swindon |
East Anglian
| |
| Risbridge | West Suffolk |
| Lothingland | Great Yarmouth and Waveney |
| Jane Walker | East Suffolk |
| Hadleigh House | East Suffolk |
| Hales Hospital | Norwich |
North Western
| |
| Brockhall Hospital | Hyndburn and Ribble Valley |
| Scott House | Rochdale |
| Offerton House | Stockport |
Table 2
| |
Menial illness hospitals
| DHA
|
Northern
| |
| St. Mary's, Stannington | Gateshead |
Yorkshire
| |
| Storthes Hall Hospital | Huddersfield |
| Clifton Hospital | York |
| Stanley Royd Hospital | Wakefield |
| Scalebor Park Hospital | Airedale |
Trent
| |
| Pastures Hospital | South Derbyshire |
East Anglia
| |
| St. Audry's Hospital | East Suffolk |
| St. Nicholas' Hospital | Great Yarmouth and Waveney |
| St. Andrews | Norwich |
North West Thames
| |
| Nil | |
North East Thames
| |
| Friern Hospital1 | Hampstead |
South East Thames
| |
| Cane Hill Hospital | Croydon (managed by Bromley) |
| Tooting Bee Hospital | Wandsworth (managed by West Lambeth) |
| Hellingley Hospital | Eastbourne |
| St. Augustine's Hospital | Canterbury and Thanet |
| Maidstone Hospital (psychiatric wing) | Maidstone |
South West Thames
| |
| Long Grove Hospital, Epsom | Kingston and Esher |
| Brookwood Hospital | South West Surrey |
Wessex
| |
| Whitecroft Hospital | Isle of Wight |
| Herrison Hospital, Dorchester | West Dorset |
| Old Manor Hospital, Salisbury1 | Salisbury |
Oxford
| |
| St. John's Hospital | Aylesbury Vale |
| Fairmile Hospital | West Berkshire |
| Littlemore Hospital | Oxford |
South Western
| |
| Coney Hill Hospital | Gloucester |
| Moorhaven Hospital | Plymouth |
| Tone Vale Hospital, Taunton | Somerset |
Mental illness hospitals
| DHA
|
West Midlands
| |
| Barnsley Hall Hospital | Bromsgrove and Redditch |
| Rubery Hill Hospital | South Birmingham |
| Central Hospital | South Warwickshire |
| Hollymoor Hospital | Solihull |
Mersey
| |
| Rainhill Hospital | St. Helens and Knowlsley |
| Winwick Hospital | Warrington |
North Western Nil
| |
1 With some facilities remaining on site. | |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to publish comprehensive statistics about mentally ill hospital patients comparable to those in the DHSS statistical bulletins which ceased in 1986.
The K6rner recommendations on health services information were implemented for each financial year, commencing from 1 April 1987. These recommendations involved several definitional changes to information collected by the national health service and some statistics comparable with those previously published are no longer available from central returns. Some information on mental illness is contained in the forthcoming booklet, "Hospital Episode System—Summary Tables for England —1987/88"—a copy of which will be placed in the Library. Further estimates for activity within the specialties of mental illness and mental handicap will be published in a bulletin later in 1991.