Self-harm: Birmingham

(asked on 2nd July 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 under the age of 18 have presented at A&E in need of treatment for self-harm at hospitals in the Greater Birmingham area in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 9th July 2018

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table.

Count of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances1 with an A&E patient group of self-harm, within the Birmingham area2, for patients aged between 0 and 17, 2012-13 to 2016-17.

Financial year

Attendances

2012-13

207

2013-14

253

2014-15

219

2015-16

238

2016-17

219

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital

Notes:

  1. Attendances do not represent the number of patients, as a person may attend an NHS hospital on more than one occasion within the period.
  2. Data provided is based upon the clinical commissioning group (CCG) area within which the organisation providing treatment was located, and encompasses the following CCG areas:

- NHS Birmingham South and Central CCG;

- NHS Birmingham CrossCity CCG; and

- NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG.

  1. On 1 April 2018, Birmingham South and Central CCG and Birmingham Cross City CCG merged with Solihull CCG to create Birmingham and Solihull CCG. The available data pre-dates this merger.
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