Suicide: Medical Treatments
(asked on 18th June 2018) - 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 have received medical treatment as a result of an attempted suicide in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 26th June 2018
The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table.
Count of finished admitted episodes with an external cause of intentional self-harm, 2012-13 to 2016-17
| 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
Total | 107,451 | 117,115 | 110,618 | 113,253 | 107,291 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
Notes:
- A finished admission episode (FAE) is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes.
- Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.
- The data provided covers hospital inpatient activity only.