FoI Number
2024-781
Subject
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Date Received
13/03/2025
Request and Response
  1. How many patients under the age of 18-years-old have received Electroconvulsive therapy in the past ten years, could you please provide this in a breakdown of financial years?
  2. Could you please provide the total number of Electroconvulsive therapy session were used for under 18s in the past ten years, could you please provide this in a breakdown of financial years?  To clarify, by session I am referring to each time ECT was used not the number of blocks.
  3. What is the total number of adverse events recorded on DATIX as a result of ECT in under 18s in the past 10 years? Can you please provide this in a breakdown of the past ten financial years?

ECT is not delivered on Shetland