Table 2.4.11
NUMBER OF PATIENTS IN HIGH SECURITY HOSPITALS
AND NUMBER OF THESE PATIENTS CLASSIFIED AS HAVING A LEARNING DISABILITY,
1994-1997
| Number of patients
at 31 December
| Number of these
patients classified as
having a learning disability
|
| 1994 | 1,446 | 142
|
| 1995 | 1,390 | 143
|
| 1996 | 1,370 | 133
|
| 1997 | 1,350 | 129
|
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PRISONS
2. The health of prisoners is the responsibility of the
Directorate of Health Care of the Prison Service. However, the
Department of Health has commissioned, with the support of the
Prison Service, a comprehensive survey of the incidence of mental
health problems in the prison population. A report on the survey
will be published later this year.
REGIONAL SECURE
UNITS
3. It is not possible to determine, from data collected
centrally by the Department, the type of unit or ward in which
in-patients are being treated so it is not possible to give figures
on the numbers treated in regional secure units.
2.5 Payments to Voluntary Organisations
How much has the Department allocated to voluntary organisations
each year for the past five years?
1. The Department's expenditure is not recorded according
to the status of the recipient and accounts records are not in
a form which allows the reliable extraction of the information
requested. Manual data extraction has identified payments for
voluntary organisations in the last five years, which are shown
in the Table 2.5.1.
2. Table 2.5.2 provides a breakdown of the allocations
to voluntary organisations from 1993-94 to 1997-98.
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