Suicide: Accident and Emergency Departments
(asked on 13th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted via A&E with a primary diagnosis of attempted suicide in each month of (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14, (e) 2014-15, (f) 2015-16 and (g) 2016-17 in (i) Southport and (ii) nationally.
Information is not held in the format requested. The information available is shown in the table below. This shows a count of unplanned accident and emergency attendances that resulted in a hospital admission with a patient group of deliberate self-harm for Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) of treatment, NHS Southport and Formby CCG of residence and England total, 2010-11 to 2016-17.
Year | Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust | NHS Southport and Formby CCG of treatment | NHS Southport and Formby CCG of residence | England total |
2010-11 | 422 | 422 | 207 | 45,784 |
2011-12 | 240 | 240 | 112 | 48,024 |
2012-13 | 367 | 367 | 210 | 45,249 |
2013-14 | 313 | 313 | 150 | 47,435 |
2014-15 | 267 | 267 | 150 | 42,464 |
2015-16 | 217 | 208 | 133 | 42,565 |
2016-17 | 203 | 179 | 114 | 39,687 |