Mental Health Services: Cornwall
(asked on 22nd July 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people waited over six months to access Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services support in Cornwall in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
The following table shows the number of referrals for those aged 17 years old and under at the time of referral to mental health services in the Cornwall local authority, for each of the last five years:
Reporting Period | Number of new referrals | Number of new referrals that received a first contact (contact can occur at any point within the referral) | Number of referrals starting in the year that subsequently received a first contact over 6 months from the referral request date |
2019/20 | 6,301 | 3,414 | 378 |
2020/21 | 6,592 | 3,691 | 292 |
2021/22 | 8,294 | 4,806 | 533 |
2022/23 | 10,497 | 4,851 | 224 |
2023/24 | 13,646 | 6,330 | 50 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset