Secure Psychiatric Units
(asked on 12th January 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many assaults on patients by other patients in secure mental health units were recorded by (a) Clinical Commissioning Group and (b) local authority area in each year since 2015.
This question was answered on 21st January 2021
The attached table shows the number of assaults in secure mental health wards for each year, by local authority area, from 2018 to November 2020, the most recent data available.
Due to changes in coverage in the Mental Health Services Dataset in 2016/17, it is not possible to provide comparable figures from 2015 to 2017.