Mental Health Services: Hospital Beds

(asked on 5th March 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) high secure, (2) medium secure, and (3) low secure, mental health service beds are in each integrated care board area of England.


Answered by
Lord Markham Portrait
Lord Markham
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 12th March 2024

The following table shows the amount of mental health service beds available, broken down by security level, as well as when the data was last validated:

Specialised Mental Health Inpatient Services

Commissioned Beds

Last Validated

Adult High Secure

715

October 2022

Adult Medium Secure

2965

March 2021

Adult Low Secure

3003

March 2021

Total

6683

N/A

Source: NHS England.

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