Charlotte Leslie – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2016-03-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children’s mental health beds there are (a) in each local authority or clinical commissioning group region and (b) per head of population in each such region.
Alistair Burt
The data of how many children’s mental health beds in each clinical commissioning group by region and per head of population in each such region, is contained in the below table:
Commissioned Beds |
Number of Children 0-19 |
Commissioned Beds per 1,000 Children |
|
London |
242 |
2,198,488 |
0.11 |
East Midlands |
137 |
1,146,555 |
0.12 |
East of England |
187 |
1,461,845 |
0.13 |
West Midlands |
175 |
1,434,330 |
0.12 |
North East |
98 |
703,514 |
0.14 |
North West |
196 |
1,641,767 |
0.12 |
Yorkshire and Humber |
90 |
1,328,961 |
0.07 |
South Central |
152 |
1,154,356 |
0.13 |
South East Coast |
94 |
1,080,080 |
0.09 |
South West |
54 |
1,069,126 |
0.05 |
Totals |
1,425 |
13,219,022 |
0.11 |
Notes:
- These figures only relate to where the service capacity is geographically located.
- There is no account taken of how the referrals flow in terms of cross boundary activity – some of which is planned for to reflect transport networks and some of which would be unplanned out of area activity.