Specific places

"Specific places should also be stated, as well as the time scale of operations.

"The local recipient community could then ensure that party promises were kept.

The policy said Labour believed that psychiatric hospitals should be co-ordinated with general public hospitals under hospital board administration. The steps by which this could be achieved would be worked out in consultation with the parties involved the policy said.

"This policy was repudiated from the platform at the 1968 conference," Mr Blizard said.