Luciana Berger – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-02-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people were diagnosed with a mental health problem in A&E in each year since 2009-10.
Norman Lamb
The information is in the table:
|
Year |
2009-10 |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
|
A&E Attendances |
8,358 |
9,328 |
11,614 |
13,655 |
17,278 |
|
FAEs |
11,909 |
12,417 |
12,361 |
11,994 |
12,126 |
The table shows both the number of attendances in accident and emergency (A&E) in which the A&E diagnosis was ‘psychiatric conditions’ and the number of Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) in which the primary diagnosis was ‘mental and behavioural disorders’.
