Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished admission episodes there were with a primary diagnosis of mental and behavioural disorder for patients aged 0 to 18 years in 2015-16.

Provisional data provided by NHS Digital record the number of Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of a mental and behavioural disorder where the patient age was between 0 and 18 years, for the year 2015-16 as:

Activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

Notes:

1. Finished admission episodes

An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.

2. Primary diagnosis

The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and 7 prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the HES data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital.

3. ICD-10 codes used

F00-F99: Mental and behavioural disorders

4. Provisional data

The data are provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made. Counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated for the same period in the final data set. This shortfall will be most pronounced in the final month of the latest period, ie November from the (month 9) April to November extract. It is also probable that clinical data are not complete, which may in particular affect the last two months of any given period. There may also be errors due to coding inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated and corrected.