- FoI Number
- 2023-104
- Subject
- Mental Health in Accident and Emergency
- Date Received
- 24/05/2023
- Request and Response
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I would be grateful if you could provide the following information -
1. The total number of A&E attendances for mental health emergencies in the board area in (a) 2021 (b) 2022.
The number of A&E attendances where the Presenting Complaint included the word “mental”, so as to include additional spaces between mental & health, differences in word order etc, was:
2021 65
2022 68
2. The number of A&E attendances for mental health emergencies where the patient was accompanied to A&E by a police officer, in (a) 2021 (b) 2022.
Of these the number of A&E attendances wherein the mode of transport was listed as “Police/prison transport” was
2021 15
2022 24
