Department of Health written question – answered at on 8 February 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged 18 and under were admitted to A&E for (a) deliberate self-harm and (b) psychiatric conditions in England in each of the last five years.
While data on the number of people attending accident and emergency (A&E) departments is not collected centrally, the table does provide a number of A&E attendances for patients aged under 18 with a recorded first diagnosis of psychiatric conditions, those where the recorded patient group is 'intentional self-harm' and those where both criteria appear from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
Criteria | Year | ||||
2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
Diagnosis - Psychiatric Conditions | 6,950 | 8,930 | 10,853 | 13,989 | 14,917 |
Patient Group - Intentional Self Harm | 13,504 | 13,730 | 13,859 | 17,486 | 17,019 |
Attendances where both the above codes were recorded | 1,098 | 1,340 | 1,687 | 2,205 | 2,313 |
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