Suicide

(asked on 4th February 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Baroness Keeley Portrait
Baroness Keeley
(Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people who died by suicide within two months of presenting at A&E with a mental health condition.

Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 10th February 2020

The following table shows the number of people who died by intentional self-poisoning or intentional self-harm within 60 days of attending accident and emergency (A&E) and, through the Accident and Emergency Clinical Coding Structure1, received diagnosis of a ‘psychiatric condition’.

Financial year

Number of people who died by suicide within 60 days of attending A&E and being diagnosed with a psychiatric condition

2017/18

139

2018/19

79

Source: NHS Digital

Note:

1Accident and Emergency Clinical Coding Structure: https://www.datadictionary.nhs.uk/version2/web_site_content/pages/codes/administrative_codes/a_amp_e_diagnosis_tables.asp?shownav=1

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