FoI Number
2023-535
Subject
Specialist Bed Waits
Date Received
01/12/2023
Request and Response

For the year from 1st August 2022 to 1st August 2023 inclusive:

1.    What was the average wait time for mental health patients to be admitted to a specialist bed in a mental health hospital, from the time of referral to the mental health team?

2.    What was the longest an individual mental health patient waited to be admitted to a specialist bed in a mental health hospital, from the time of referral to the mental health team?

3.    How many mental health patients in your health board were admitted to a specialist bed in a mental health hospital?

NHS Shetland does not have any inpatient mental health beds.