PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hospitals: Coronavirus (5 June 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were discharged from mental health hospitals as part of the Government's response to the covid-19 outbreak between March and April 2020.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

The total number of discharges from mental health hospitals in England during the period requested is shown in the following table. COVID-19 is not one of the options available to record the reason for a patient being discharged.

England	March 2020	April 20202
Discharges from mental health hospitals in the reporting period1	11,829	Not yet available

Source: Mental Health Services Data Set, NHS Digital

Notes:

¹A person may have had been discharged more than once within any given period.

² Data for April 2020 are still being collected and analysed.

Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
16 June 2020