- FoI Number
- 2025-082
- Subject
- Psychiatric Follow Up
- Date Received
- 01/05/2025
- Request and Response
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- Please provide me with the number of discharged psychiatric patients (i.e. General Psychiatry; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Forensic Psychiatry; Psychiatry of Old Age; Learning Disability; and Psychotherapy) in a) 2022/23, b) 2023/24 and c) 2024/25 who received a follow-up appointment with community mental health services i) within 7 days, ii) within 10 days, iii) within 14 days and iv) longer than 14 days
Year
Within 7 days
Within 10 days
Within 14 days
>14 days
2022/23
<5
0
0
0
2023/24
<5
0
0
0
2024/25
<5
0
0
0
Note that we have only counted patients once and in the lowest time period – that is, a patient receiving a follow-up appointment within 7 days also meets the ‘within 10 days’ and within ‘14 days criteria’ but they have only been counted in the first category.
Where we have given <5 answers, this is because NHS Shetland considers that providing more specific information carries a high risk of identifying individuals. As such and in accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 38(1)(b) as read with s 38 (2A) as the information constitutes personal data and disclosure would breach the confidentiality of the data subjects.
- Please provide me with the longest time between discharge and follow up with community mental health services for discharged psychiatric patients in in a) 2022/23, b) 2023/24 and c) 2024/25
a) 4 days
b) 7 days
c) 5 days
- Please provide me with the average time between discharge and follow up with community mental health services for discharged psychiatric patients in in a) 2022/23, b) 2023/24 and c) 2024/25
Given the small number of patients involved, we are unable to provide averages without risk of identifying individual patients.
As such and in accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 38(1)(b) as read with s 38 (2A) as the information constitutes personal data and disclosure would breach the confidentiality of the data subjects.
