Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health beds there were in (a) 2010 and (b) 2021.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
The information is not collected in the format requested as data is only available for financial years.
Asked by: Hilary Benn (Labour - Leeds Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he made of the adequacy of the number of mental health beds in England; and what estimate he has made of waiting times to access those beds.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before prorogation.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to specialist in-patient services for young people with eating disorders in (a) Rotherham and (b) England.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
Specialist children and young people’s mental health in-patient services, including for those with eating disorders, are available for people living in Rotherham from mental health providers within the Yorkshire and Humber region, including Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Riverdale Grange in Sheffield and the recently opened Inspire facility at Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. Additional in-patient beds are due to open in West Yorkshire in December 2021.
We have announced extra funding for eating disorder services in 2021/22 to enable an additional 2,000 children and young people nationally to receive the support they need in the community. We recognise that it is preferable for a young person to stay in the community and at home to receive their support and treatment via the local community team rather than an in-patient admission, wherever possible.
Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which institutions are contracted to provide national obsessive compulsive disorder Tier 4 services for children and young people; and what number of beds are (a) provided and (b) available at each of those institutions in the most recent period for which such information is available.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
National obsessive compulsive disorder services for adults and children are delivered by the following mental health providers:
- South London and the Maudsley NHS Trust;
- South West London and St George’s NHS Trust; and
- Priory Group Limited (Priory Hospital North London).
Information on the number of beds provided or available at each provider is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking in response to the Care Quality Commission's most recent Monitoring the Mental Health Act report in the context of covid-19 lockdown restrictions.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
We welcome the Care Quality Commission’s report which gives us an invaluable insight into the ways that mental health inpatient services have responded to the pandemic.
We have announced measures which address some of the concerns raised in the report. This includes a £50 million winter discharge support package which will boost capacity and support good quality discharge from mental health inpatient settings to help reduce pressures on inpatient beds and keep patients safe over the winter.
It is important that any restrictions on hospital visiting are proportionate and only kept in place when absolutely necessary and in line with the Government’s and NHS policies during the pandemic. We are aware that advocacy services have had to innovate during the pandemic in order to continue to offer patients the advice and support that they need.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of mental health bed availability.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
The most recent information on mental illness bed availability is shown in the following table.
Year | Period | Available | Occupied | Occupancy rate |
2018/19 | Q1 | 18,395 | 16,519 | 89.8% |
2018/19 | Q2 | 18,311 | 16,431 | 89.7% |
2018/19 | Q3 | 18,389 | 16,285 | 88.6% |
2018/19 | Q4 | 18,368 | 16,378 | 89.2% |
2019/20 | Q1 | 18,270 | 16,375 | 89.6% |
2019/20 | Q2 | 18,179 | 16,284 | 89.6% |
2019/20 | Q3 | 18,097 | 16,187 | 89.4% |
Notes:
- The data are very limited in terms of what they tell us about mental health bed availability and should therefore be treated with caution for the following reasons:
- The ‘mental illness’ category covers a huge range of inpatient mental health settings which provide very different services for people with different needs. As such, it does not provide the granularity of information required to identify where there might be particular pressures in the mental health system.
- They only cover beds in services that are consultant-led.
- It is very difficult to assess the accuracy of the aggregate data submitted and the accompanying guidance has not been updated since the Department published it in 2010.
Source: NHS England: KH03 data collection
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many delayed discharges of care there were from mental health providers in England in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data is held from 2011-12 onwards. The data requested is shown in the attached table.
The data attached is collected via a monthly situation report and is published at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many consultant-led NHS acute mental-health beds there were in each year since 2009.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
I refer the hon. Member to the Answer given by the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Jackie Doyle-Price MP) on 8 July 2019 to Question 270766.
Information on whether consultant-led National Health Service acute mental health beds are specifically designated for working age adults is not held.
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many consultant-led NHS working age adult acute mental-health beds there were in each year since 2009.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
I refer the hon. Member to the Answer given by the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Jackie Doyle-Price MP) on 8 July 2019 to Question 270766.
Information on whether consultant-led National Health Service acute mental health beds are specifically designated for working age adults is not held.
Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average length of occupancy was of consultant-led NHS acute mental-health beds in each year since 2009.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
I refer the hon. Member to the Answer given by the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Jackie Doyle-Price MP) on 8 July 2019 to Question 270767.