PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Cornwall (22 July 2024)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people waited over six months to access Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services support in Cornwall in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Asked by:
Ben Maguire (Liberal Democrat)
Asked by:
Ben Maguire (Liberal Democrat)
Answer
The following table shows the number of referrals for those aged 17 years old and under at the time of referral to mental health services in the Cornwall local authority, for each of the last five years:
Reporting Period | Number of new referrals | Number of new referrals that received a first contact (contact can occur at any point within the referral) | Number of referrals starting in the year that subsequently received a first contact over 6 months from the referral request date |
2019/20 | 6,301 | 3,414 | 378 |
2020/21 | 6,592 | 3,691 | 292 |
2021/22 | 8,294 | 4,806 | 533 |
2022/23 | 10,497 | 4,851 | 224 |
2023/24 | 13,646 | 6,330 | 50 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset
Answered by:
Stephen Kinnock (Labour)
5 August 2024
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