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.


Answered by
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Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 26th November 2020

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.

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