PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients (6 February 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many specialist mental health places were available in, for people sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983, in each region in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Mr James Frith (Labour)

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and NHS England hold responsibility for the commissioning of mental health places for people who are sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983. CCGs commission local services that meet the needs of their local populations, including non-specialist mental health inpatient services. NHS England commissions the specialist in-patient services relating to a number of areas including adult secure care, perinatal care and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Tier 4 care.

The available information for England on the number of specialist beds in each of these categories over the last three to five years is given below. Information by individual region is not collected centrally.

Adult secure beds (high, medium and low secure care)

- 1 April 2015: 7,318

- 1 April 2016: 7,313

- 1 April 2017: 72,39

CAMHS Tier 4 Beds

- April 2013 – 1,343

- April 2014 – 1,386

- November 2015 – 1,442

- April 2017 – 1,449

Mother and baby units

- 2015/16 -112 beds

- 2016/17 - 120 beds

- 2017/18 -124 beds

It is important to note that not all the beds identified will be occupied by patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983. These numbers also include beds for patients who have a learning disability and challenging behaviour which will require in-patient health care.

Answered by:
Dame Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative)
9 February 2018