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Dept of Health

Answer

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been sectioned at Springfield Mental Hospital, Tooting, in each of the last 10 years. [222001] Dr. Ladyman: The information on the number of patients sectioned is not held centrally. Information on the number of detentions under the Mental Health Act, 1983, of patients, on admission and subsequent to admission in South West London and St. George's Mental Health National Health Service Trust is shown in the table. Information is collected on a NHS trust basis rather than by individual hospital units. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total detentions (on admission Detentions on admission Detentions subsequent to and subsequent to admission) admission 2003-04 935 539 396 2002-03 1,299 528 771 2001-02 1,180 588 592 2000-01 988 410 578 1999-2000 948 526 422 1998-99 796 489 307 1997-98 628 470 158 1996-97 589 403 186 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. Figures exclude previous legislation (fifth schedule) and other acts. 2. A patient may be detained more than once. 3. Detentions subsequent to admission include changes from Section 136 to Sections 2 and 3 and Informal to Sections 2 and 3, 5(2) and 5(4). 4. The table shows detentions for South West London and St. George's Mental Health NHS Trust from 1996-97 to 2003-04. Data is not available in a comparable format for earlier years.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c915W;432 c914-5W; 222001

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Compulsorily detained psychiatric patients Springfield University Hospital

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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