Speeches

Luciana Berger – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many attendances at emergency departments for self-harm per 100,000 people there were in each year since that data has been collected; and how many people received a psychological assessment.

Alistair Burt

The table below shows the number of people who attended emergency departments for self-harm between 2007/08 and 2013/14. Data is not available for the number of people who received a psychosocial assessment after presenting at emergency departments for self-harm.

Rate of Accident and Emergency (A&E) attendances where patient group was recorded as ‘self-harm’ per 100,000 population, from 2007/08 to 2013/14

Year

Number of attendances

Rate per 100,000 population

2007/08

94,488

184

2008/09

101,670

196

2009/10

108,312

208

2010/11

112,669

214

2011/12

118,935

224

2012/13

111,544

209

2013/14

117,719

219

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre