Psychiatric Patients: Self-harm and Suicide
(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 incidents of (a) self-harm, (b) suicide and (c) attempted suicide by patients within (i) 24 and (ii) 48 hours of discharge from a mental health hospital have been been recorded in the past year.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 18th December 2023
The Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS) does not hold the information requested.
The University of Manchester provides data on suicides for people in contact with mental health services annually. Their reports are available at the following link: