2025-002147 response
- Date of request
- 30 May 2025
- Date of response
- 27 June 2025
- Suicide
Request
Under FOI, please provide the following by calendar year for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
If you only hold the data by financial year, please provide the data for 2020/2021, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/2025 and 2025 to date.
Please also provide the following data for the past 12 months :
1. Number of suicides in in-patient psychiatric units
2. Number of suicides per 10,000 in-patient psychiatric admissions
3. Number of suicides of children and young people under 18 in in-patient psychiatric units
4. Number of suicides per 10,000 children and young people under 18 admitted to in-patient psychiatric units
5. Number of suicides within 3 months of being discharged from an in-patient psychiatric unit
- Number of suicides per 10,000 discharges from in-patient psychiatric units within 3 months of discharge
7. Number of suicides of children and young people under 18 per 10,000 discharges from in patient-psychiatric units within 3 months of discharge
8. Number of suicides of children and young people under 18 discharged from in patient psychiatric units within 3 months of discharge
If less than 10,000 patients have been admitted or discharged in any of these categories, please provide the number as another proportion (e.g 1 in 10, 1 in 5436 etc etc).
The term psychiatric unit here refers to any in-patient psychiatric or mental health unit, ward, hospital, or other similar institution.