Sexual Assault Referral Centres

(asked on 12th December 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 patients were (a) seen and (b) treated by NHS commissioned Sexual Assault Referral Centres run by Mountain Healthcare in each financial year since 2018-19.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 18th December 2023

The following table shows the number of patients were seen by National Health Service-commissioned sexual assault referral centres (SARCs) run by Mountain Healthcare in each financial year since 2018/19:

Year

Number of patients seen

2018/19

4,689

2019/20

3,240

2020/21

2,080

2021/22

3,742

2022/23

10,822

Source: NHS England

Notes:

  1. The numbers of patients ‘seen’ and the numbers of patients ‘treated’ are the same, as all SARC attendances receive a form of treatment.
  2. Data was submitted manually prior to 2022/23. This required providers to record aggregated numbers against indicators and can be unreliable.
  3. The 2019/20 data is reported to December 2019. Due to COVID-19, the data between January and March 2020 was not collected or reported.
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