Accident and Emergency Departments: Drugs
(asked on 16th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government since March, what is the total number of people in England who have presented at accident and emergency departments with (1) an overdose, or (2) parasuicide; and whether they can provide these figures broken down by region.
The diagnosis coding scheme used in the Emergency Care Data Set does not uniquely identify parasuicide.
The following table shows data on accident and emergency (A&E) attendances with a primary diagnosis of overdose, by commissioning region, April - September 2020.
Commissioning region | Attendances |
London | 4,955 |
South West | 6,710 |
South East | 8,040 |
Midlands | 11,220 |
East of England | 5,895 |
North West | 7,820 |
North East and Yorkshire | 10,825 |
Unknown | 10 |
England | 55,473 |
It should be noted that this is not a count of patients as an individual may have attended an A&E department in any given period.