PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Patients: Suicide (30 November 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many recorded suicides there have been among psychiatric hospital in-patients in England in each of the last five years.
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Answer
The Department does not hold this information.
However the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness collected information on the number of estimated and confirmed inpatient suicides in England from 2004 to 2014. This information can be found in their latest report, which was published in October 2016:
Answered by:
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative)
5 December 2016
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