Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have died (a) while accommodated in acute mental health care facilities and (b) while detailed under the provisions of the Mental Health Act (1983) in each of the last five years.
Information on how many people have died while accommodated in acute mental health care facilities is not held centrally.
The following table shows how many people died while detained under the Mental Health Act in each of the last five years:
Year | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Natural causes | 136 | 143 | 268 | 152 | 165 |
Unnatural causes | 34 | 32 | 33 | 46 | 46 |
Undetermined | 25 | 65 | 62 | 72 | 53 |
Total | 195 | 240 | 363 | 270 | 264 |
Source: Care Quality Commission
The following table shows how many people died while subject to community treatment orders in each of the last five years:
Year | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Natural causes | 9 | 21 | 27 | 27 | 24 |
Unnatural causes | 5 | 10 | 23 | 14 | 17 |
Undetermined | 2 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 13 |
Total | 16 | 36 | 65 | 55 | 54 |
Source: Care Quality Commission