Sexual Assault Referral Centres

(asked on 12th December 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Stella Creasy Portrait
Stella Creasy
(Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were (a) seen and (b) treated by NHS commissioned Sexual Assault Referral Centres in each financial year since 2018-19.

Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
This question was answered on 18th December 2023

The following table shows the numbers of patients seen by National Health Service-commissioned sexual assault referral centres (SARCs) in each financial year since 2018/19:

Year

Number of patients seen by SARCs

2018/19

11,993

2019/20

9,451

2020/21

7,960

2021/22

10,333

2022/23

21,836


Source: NHS England

Notes:

  1. The numbers of patients ‘seen’ and the numbers of patients ‘treated’ are the same, as all SARC attendances receive a form of treatment.
  2. Data was submitted manually prior to 2022/23. This required providers to record aggregated numbers against indicators and can be unreliable.
  3. The 2019/20 data is data reported up to December 2019. Due to COVID-19, data for January to March 2020 was not collected or reported.

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