Select Committee on Health Report


Table 2.4.10


ADMISSIONS TO PRIVATE FACILITIES UNDER THE MHA 1983 AND CHANGES FROM INFORMAL TO DETAINED STATUS WHILE IN HOSPITAL: 1996-97: ENGLAND (1)


Numbers

Admitted
to hospital
under
Section
Subject to
section
after
admission (2)
Private facilities by RO and HA area 1,005
400
England
Northern and Yorkshire84
8

County Durham82
Leeds11
Newcastle and North Tyneside3
Northumberland1
Tees1
North Yorkshire695
Calderdale and Kirklees1

Trent1

Lincolnshire1

Anglia and Oxford144 36

Berkshire203
Cambridge and Huntingdon21
East Norfolk19
Northamptonshire6631
Suffolk182

North Thames442 201

Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster241 76
Enfield and Haringey91 77
Barking and Havering4 13
Brent and Harrow408
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow29 22
North Essex364
West Hertfordshire1 1

South Thames176 96

Bromley6246
West Kent238
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth45 29
East Surrey2
West Surrey1712
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove27 1

South and West69 25

Southampton and South West Hampshire31 16
South and West Devon6
Wiltshire1
Avon117
Cornwall and Isles Of Scilly6
Dorset81
North and East Devon3
Gloucestershire4

West Midlands9 1

Birmingham91

North and West80 33

Salford and Trafford31 19
Stockport1414
North Cheshire13
South Cheshire11
East Lancashire7
Wigan and Bolton2
Wirral2


Footnotes:

  1.  The table only includes health authorities in which there were private mental nursing homes that had detained patients during the year.

  2.  Includes all changes from informal status to detention under the Act, and detentions where the patient was initially brought to hospital under Section 136 (Place of Safety Order).


  2.4c  Could the Department provide a table showing, over the last four years, the numbers of people with mental health problems and with learning disabilities who have been in special hospitals, prisons and regional secure units?

HIGH SECURITY HOSPITALS

  1.  Table 2.4.11 shows the total number of patients in the high security hospitals at 31 December in each of the last four years and the number of these patients who were classified as having a learning disability. Patients with learning disabilities may also have mental health problems.


 
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