Department of Health written question – answered on 23rd February 2015.
Luciana Berger
Shadow Minister (Public Health)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people were admitted to hospital due to mental health problems in each year since 2009-10.
Luciana Berger
Shadow Minister (Public Health)
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 Minister of State, Department of Health
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’.
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