Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people under the age of 18 were admitted to A&E for deliberate self harm in (a) the Sheffield City Region combined authority area and (b) Barnsley in the last two years.

The following table shows the number of attendances at accident and emergency departments by patients aged under 18 with a recorded patient group of 'deliberate self harm', for 2016/17 and 2017/18, where the clinical commissioning group (CCG) of residence covers the Sheffield City Region combined authority area and Barnsley.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

Notes:

- Attendances do not represent the number of patients, as a person may attend a National Health Service hospital on more than one occasion within the period.

- Data for the CCGs containing the patient’s normal home address has been provided. This does not necessarily reflect where the patient was treated as they may have travelled to another area for treatment.

- The following four CCGs make up the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority Area – data has been provided for each individual CCG as well as the combined total for the Sheffield City area:

- NHS Barnsley CCG;

- NHS Doncaster CCG;

- NHS Rotherham CCG; and

- NHS Sheffield CCG.

- Due to disclosure control rules, NHS Digital must round sub-national HES data to the nearest five, which explains why the sum of the individual CCG breakdown does not match with the total figure for the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority Area.

- HES figures are available from 2007-08 onwards. Changes to the figures over time should be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.