To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have died while in the care of community mental health teams in the last 12 months; and if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of this data.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
23 May 2024
The following table shows the number of people who died between 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024, who had an active referral to community mental health teams at the time of death, as well as the numbers of those who had a care contact or an attended care contact at the time of death:
Number of deaths recorded in 2023/24 whilst having a referral to community mental health teams | 10,127 |
Number of deaths recorded in 2023/24 whilst having a referral to community mental health teams with a care contact recorded as part of the referral | 9,944 |
Number of deaths recorded in 2023/24 whilst having a referral to community mental health teams with an attended care contact recorded as part of the referral | 9,586 |
Source: data comes from the Office for National Statistics’ deaths data and the Mental Health Services Dataset.