Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Enfield North
(asked on 19th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been sectioned under mental health legislation in Enfield North constituency in each of the last four years.
The information requested has been provided for Enfield Council, as the nearest equivalent to the Enfield North constituency at which data is held.
Year | Number of detentions1 under the Mental Health Act | Number of people subject to detention |
2018/19 | 405 | 325 |
2019/20 | 410 | 325 |
2020/21 | 455 | 355 |
2021/222 | 420 | 345 |
Source: NHS England
Notes:
The difference between the number of detentions and the number of people subject to detention is due to patients who have been repeatedly detained.
1 Does not include uses of section 136 where the place of safety was a police station.
2 Data beyond after March 2022 were impacted by a cyber incident, so have not been included.