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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Psychiatric Hospitals: Patients (15 July 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were discharged from mental health hospitals in each month in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

Answer

The following table shows available discharge figures for all activity relating to people who receive specialist secondary mental health care services or who receive specialist secondary learning disabilities or autism spectrum disorder services.

Number of discharges1 from mental health hospitals in England

Month

2019

2020

January

9,865

10,622

February

9,134

9,388

March

9,836

11,829

April

9,983

8,426

May

10,412

June

9,878

July

10,965

August

10,096

September

9,567

October

10,795

November

9,842

December

9,970

Source: Mental Health Services Dataset - NHS Digital.

1 As this is a count of discharges it may include people who had more than one hospital spell in a month and are therefore counted more than once.


Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
29 July 2020

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