Psychiatric Patients: Children
(asked on 18th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the levels of readmission rates among mental health inpatients aged 0-17.
The following table shows the number of readmissions and the percentage of all admissions that were readmissions for children and young people’s mental health inpatient services, for 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, and from April to August of 2025/26:
Year | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 |
Number of readmissions | 197 | 196 | 157 | 83 |
Percentage of admissions that were readmissions | 7.9% | 8.7% | 7.5% | 9.3% |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset, NHS England.
A readmission is any admission which takes place within 90 days of a previous discharge, for the same patient.