Mental Health

Scottish Parliament Written answers, 2 November 2009

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Jackie Baillie (Labour) | Question S3W-28308

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in psychiatric hospitals in each year since 1999 as a result of suicide and how many of those were known problem drug users.

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Shona Robison (Scottish National Party)

This information from 1998 to 2005, which is the most recent published, can be found in the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness: Lessons for mental health care in Scotland. This report can be viewed at:

http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/suicide/prevention/nci/reports/scotlandfullreport.pdf.

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