Liz Kendall – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liz Kendall on 2016-04-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients with a diagnosis of autism have been held on mental health wards in each of the last three years because they could not get a suitable living placement; and how many of those patients were (a) children and (b) adults.
Alistair Burt
The total number of adults with a diagnosis of autism who have been held on mental health wards was five in 2014 and 10 in 2015.
The table below provides average and longest length for adults with a diagnosis of autism who were held on mental health wards in each of the last two years because they could not get a suitable living placement.
|
Longest length of stay (days) |
Average length of stay (days) |
|
|
2014 Adults (aged 18 and over) |
435 |
236 |
|
2015 Adults (aged 18 and over) |
249 |
71 |
Data for children for this same period cannot be provided as the total is fewer than five in each given year and cannot be made available in order to minimise disclosure risks associated with small numbers.
