Since the introduction of the psychiatric unit at the Edgware Community Hospital, one outpatient was found dead in the stream across the road from the unit and another, we are informed, is 'missing' and not to be approached.

I have been approached by mentally ill patients near or outside the hospital grounds, who I assume are not dangerous or would not be outside.

How long before a death or several deaths result in better assessment and supervision of these patients?

D Brook

Deans Lane, Edgware