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.
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:
- NHS Birmingham South and Central CCG;
- NHS Birmingham CrossCity CCG; and
- NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG.