Self-harm
(asked on 2nd July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) girls, and (2) boys, aged under 18 received hospital treatment for self-harm in each year since 2010.
Data on the number of under 18 boys and girls who received hospital treatment for self-harm in each year since 2010 is in the following table.
Count of finished admission episodeswith a cause code of self-harm and a count of accident and emergency attendances (excluding planned attendances) with a patient group of deliberate self-harm for (1) females under 18 and (2) males under 18 for 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. | ||||||
Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector | ||||||
Year | Accident and emergency attendances | Finished admission episodes | ||||
Male | Female | Male | Female | |||
2010-11 | 4,038 | 9,264 | 2,594 | 11,400 | ||
2011-12 | 4,287 | 9,388 | 2,363 | 10,868 | ||
2012-13 | 3,800 | 9,943 | 2,473 | 12,305 | ||
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre | ||||||
Notes:
- Admissions do not represent the number of inpatients as a person may have more than one admission in one year; and
- a patient may have attended Accident and Emergency (A&E) and then been admitted to hospital as a single event, in this case the event would be included in both the A&E and hospital admission figures.
Analysis of how these statistics compare with the rest of Europe has not been made.
Data is not collected on the incidence of self-harm among boys and girls aged under 18 nor those who continue to self-harm in adulthood.