Psychiatric Hospitals: Discharges
(asked on 15th July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were discharged from mental health hospitals in each month in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020.
The following table shows available discharge figures for all activity relating to people who receive specialist secondary mental health care services or who receive specialist secondary learning disabilities or autism spectrum disorder services.
Number of discharges1 from mental health hospitals in England | ||
Month | 2019 | 2020 |
January | 9,865 | 10,622 |
February | 9,134 | 9,388 |
March | 9,836 | 11,829 |
April | 9,983 | 8,426 |
May | 10,412 |
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June | 9,878 |
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July | 10,965 |
|
August | 10,096 |
|
September | 9,567 |
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October | 10,795 |
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November | 9,842 |
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December | 9,970 |
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Source: Mental Health Services Dataset - NHS Digital.
1 As this is a count of discharges it may include people who had more than one hospital spell in a month and are therefore counted more than once.