Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 17 May 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of in-patients in mental health units have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each of the last three years.
The information requested is only available for 2016-17.
37,367 people were detained under the Mental Health Act in 2016-17. There were 101,589 people admitted to mental health units in 2016-17. The proportion of these inpatients who were detained under the Mental Health Act in 2016-17 was 36.8%.
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset, MHA Acute, NHS Digital.
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