Mental Health Services: Hospital Beds
(asked on 11th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many specialist mental health beds were available to patients in England in (a) March 2017 and (b) October 2017.
This question was answered on 19th December 2017
Information on the number of specialist mental health beds in England is not available in the time frames specified.
As at April 2017, there were: 1,449 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service beds covering 120 perinatal (Mother and Baby Units) beds, 779 adult high secure beds and 406 adult eating disorder beds. In addition, based on 2015/16 contracts, there were 6,536 adult low and medium secure beds.