Tuesday 12 July 2016

Two people turn up to A&E every hour in mental health crisis

Two people turn up to A&E every hour in mental health crisis A Freedom of Information request was put into all 22 hospital trusts in the Midlands which have an A&E department asking - ‘How many people had turned up to their emergency department with a mental health problem between 2013 and 2016?’

Some said they did not record that kind of data, but 15 did get back to us with some interesting findings.

The results showed that, in the last three years, 63,782 people had turned up to an emergency department across the Midlands in a mental health crisis. On average, that works out at around two people every hour. ITV News

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