Mental Health Services: Essex

(asked on 5th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of instances of physical restraint recorded at (a) North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, (b) South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and (c) Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in (i) 2015-16, (ii) 2016-17 and (iii) 2017-18.


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Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 8th March 2018

NHS Digital collects data on restrictive interventions through the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS). The data for 2017/18 is not yet available and the data for 2015/16 is incomplete as it is from a previous data set, the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Data Set (MHLDDS). The MHLDDS only covers eight months of the year from April 2015. Due to the changes in scope across the two data sets they would not be directly comparable.

NHS Digital has provided the number of recorded instances of physical interventions in 2016/17 only from the MHSDS:

- North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – 195; and

- South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – 1,065.

Data for Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is not yet available as the organisation only opened on April 2017.

Data on deaths by suicide by mental health provider are not routinely collected centrally.

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