Mental Patients: Suicide

(asked on 30th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many recorded suicides there have been among psychiatric hospital in-patients in England in each of the last five years.


This question was answered on 5th December 2016

The Department does not hold this information.

However the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness collected information on the number of estimated and confirmed inpatient suicides in England from 2004 to 2014. This information can be found in their latest report, which was published in October 2016:

http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centreforsuicideprevention/nci/reports/2016-report.pdf

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