Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have taken their own lives while being detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 in an (a) NHS and (b) private hospital in each of the last 10 years.
All service providers, including the National Health Service and private hospitals, must notify the Care Quality Commission when a person has died while being detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.
The number of deaths of patients detained under the Act and recorded as ‘self-inflicted’ is shown in the attached table.