Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the national bed occupancy rate average was for (a) adult and (b) child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric wards in each year since 2010.
Alistair Burt
The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table.
Average daily availability and occupancy rate1 for consultant-led beds open overnight in the mental health sector, in each quarter from 2010-11
|
Quarter |
Number of available beds open overnight |
Occupancy rate |
|
2010-11 Q1 |
23,515 |
87.1% |
|
2010-11 Q2 |
22,929 |
86.7% |
|
2010-11 Q3 |
23,740 |
85.9% |
|
2010-11 Q4 |
23,607 |
86.6% |
|
2011-12 Q1 |
23,253 |
86.8% |
|
2011-12 Q2 |
23,208 |
86.8% |
|
2011-12 Q3 |
23,016 |
87.2% |
|
2011-12 Q4 |
23,121 |
87.2% |
|
2012-13 Q1 |
22,550 |
87.5% |
|
2012-13 Q2 |
22,269 |
88.3% |
|
2012-13 Q3 |
22,496 |
87.2% |
|
2012-13 Q4 |
22,268 |
88.6% |
|
2013-14 Q1 |
22,109 |
88.3% |
|
2013-14 Q2 |
22,025 |
89.2% |
|
2013-14 Q3 |
21,931 |
88.1% |
|
2013-14 Q4 |
21,731 |
88.6% |
|
2014-15 Q1 |
21,750 |
89.8% |
|
2014-15 Q2 |
21,618 |
89.6% |
|
2014-15 Q3 |
21,446 |
89.4% |
|
2014-15 Q4 |
21,374 |
89.5% |
|
2015-16 Q12 |
18,569 |
89.9% |
|
2015-16 Q2 |
19,249 |
89.1% |
|
2015-16 Q3 |
19,273 |
88.6% |
Source: Bed availability and occupancy, NHS England
Notes:
- Numbers of occupied beds are collected every quarter by consultant main specialty. Numbers of available beds are not collected by consultant specialty, because some beds may be available for more than one specialty to use depending on need. Instead, available beds are collected by four sectors within which beds are used flexibly. These sectors are general and acute, mental health, learning disabilities, and maternity. Occupied bed days by specialty are added to calculate occupancy rates for each of these sectors.
- In 2015-16 Q1 several mental health providers ceased to submit a return, as a validation of beds data concluded that they were not satisfying the required criteria for consultant-led beds. This is the major factor behind the drop in the number of consultant-led, available mental health beds.
