Mental Health Services
(asked on 30th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy for adult in-patient mental health wards to record the ages of the people accessing such services; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 2nd February 2017
Since January 2016, the date of birth of all people admitted to adult inpatient mental health wards has been routinely collected via the Mental Health Services Data Set by NHS Digital. Age can be derived from this patient level data.