Learning Disability: Restraint Techniques
(asked on 30th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many instances of face-down restraint were recorded in assessment and treatment units in each year from 2010.
Data on the number of instances of prone (face-down) restraint recorded for patients with a learning disability or autism who are in contact with secondary mental services are shown in the following table.
Data is not available prior to 2016 and the figures for the number of instances of prone restraint may contain duplicates where multiple interventions with identical dates and details (intervention type and duration) for the same individual have been identified.
Data is not available for assessment and treatment units specifically as the Mental Health Services Dataset does not record if a service falls into this category.
Year | Number of instances of prone restraint of people with learning disability or autism |
2016 | 2,250 |
2017 | 3,170 |
2018 | 1,205 |
Source: NHS Digital’s Mental Health Services Data Set