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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Services: Learning Disability (19 May 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients currently in Assessment and Treatment Units have been detained in that unit under the Mental Health Act 1983.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

Answer

The following table shows Patients in Assessment and Treatment units on 30 April 2016 by legal status.

Number of patients

% of patients

England 1,2,3

April 2016

April 2016

All patients

2,565

100%

Patients not subject to the Mental Health Act 1983

265

10%

Patients subject to the Mental Health Act 1983

2,300

90%

Of these patients - subject to the Mental Health Act 1983

Patients subject to Mental Health Act Part II

1,275

50%

Mental Health Act Part III with no restrictions

380

15%

Mental Health Act Part III with restrictions

610

24%

Other

35

1%

Data source: Health and Social Care Information Centre. Assuring Transformation

Notes:

1 The Assuring Transformation collection covers England, but includes patients whose care is commissioned in England and provided elsewhere in the United Kingdom. These figures represent the number of patients who are receiving inpatient care at the end of each month. Figures have not been revised with more recent information, but show the position at the end of each month as extracted from the system at that time. This is due to it not always being possible to back date key measures. As such figures here will not match those presented in table 1 which have been back-dated.

2 Numbers less than 5 have been replaced by '*' and other values have been rounded to the nearest 5 to minimise disclosure risks associated with small numbers. Please note that rows will therefore not always add up to the total. Percentages have been calculated based on the non-rounded numbers.

3 "Mental Health Act legal status classification code" is a mandatory question in the Assuring Transformation collection. This question does not ask the start or end date of any legal status a patient may be subject to.


Answered by:
Alistair Burt (Conservative)
24 May 2016

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