Luciana Berger – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many attendances at emergency departments for self-harm per 100,000 people there were in each year since that data has been collected; and how many people received a psychological assessment.
Alistair Burt
The table below shows the number of people who attended emergency departments for self-harm between 2007/08 and 2013/14. Data is not available for the number of people who received a psychosocial assessment after presenting at emergency departments for self-harm.
Rate of Accident and Emergency (A&E) attendances where patient group was recorded as ‘self-harm’ per 100,000 population, from 2007/08 to 2013/14
Year |
Number of attendances |
Rate per 100,000 population |
2007/08 |
94,488 |
184 |
2008/09 |
101,670 |
196 |
2009/10 |
108,312 |
208 |
2010/11 |
112,669 |
214 |
2011/12 |
118,935 |
224 |
2012/13 |
111,544 |
209 |
2013/14 |
117,719 |
219 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre