Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will assess the performance of emergency outreach teams for mental health based at (a) Fulbourn hospital and (b) other hospitals; and if he will make a statement.
Paul Burstow (Minister of State (Care Services), Health; Sutton and Cheam, Liberal Democrat)
It is not the role of the Department to assess the performance of individual clinical teams. This is a matter for local commissioners. However, nationally, Crisis Resolution Home Treatment teams, which deal with patients in need of urgent care, carried out 131,452 home treatments in 2010-11 and 127, 396 home treatments in 2009-10.