Mental Health Waits - FOI Response Register

FoI Number
2023-544
Subject
Mental Health Waits
Date Received
05/12/2023
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.

Please note NHS Grampian normally treats Shetland residents that need in-patient care.

If you have sent this FOI request to NHS Grampian they will likely included these patients in their response.