Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients received NHS electroshock therapy in every year since 2010 in (a) England and (b) Romford constituency.

In line with National Institute for Clinical Excellence’s guidelines, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used in current United Kingdom clinical practice as a treatment option for individuals with depressive illness, catatonia and mania, and is occasionally used to treat schizophrenia. The following table shows the number of patients who received National Health Service ECT in England every year since 2016:

Source: NHS England.

Notes:

1. data is not available prior to April 2016; and
2. although there were no reported ECT contacts for patients in the Havering Local Authority in the period provided, it is possible that the correct codes were not recorded and submitted to Mental Health Services Data Set.

Data is not available prior to 2016. This data is not available at a constituency level, and, although the data is collected at local authority level, NHS England has advised that there were no reported electroshock therapy contacts for patients in the Havering Local Authority during this period.