Mental Health (Barnet)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 18 March 2003.

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Photo of Andrew Dismore Andrew Dismore Labour, Hendon 11:30, 18 March 2003

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that response, but I am sure that she is aware of the long waiting times for intensive out-patient care. I wish to raise in particular the matter of the Barnet psychiatric unit, which closed temporarily more than five years ago, with a view to being reopened. Nothing has happened yet and the result is that the temporary ward at Edgware hospital is under considerable strain. What will happen in terms of reproviding the Barnet psychiatric unit, and when may we expect to see some progress on the issue? The present situation is unsustainable, and perhaps the money could be found from the modernisation fund.