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E-mail: freedomofinformation@ghc.nhs.uk
Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
DATE: 31/03/2021
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 050-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
1. The number of self-inflicted deaths
which have happened in your CAMHS
Tier 4. inpatient facilities from January
2016 to December 2020
Zero.
2. The number of self-inflicted deaths
which have happened in your ADULT
Mental Health inpatient facilities from
January 2016 to December 2020
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 total
Selfinflicted
deaths
inpatient
deaths
4 1 1 1 2 9
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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
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GLOUCESTER GL3 4AW
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Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
On behalf of Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
FOI Request
Subject: BBC FOI Request Inpatient Deaths.: 3rd March
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Good afternoon, Please treat this email as a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I am seeking information on deaths in inpatient mental health facilities run by the NHS. If you can, please provide the following information in the form of an Excel document with a yearly breakdown. Please also provide the age and location of each death if this is possible.
I’m asking for:
• The number of self-inflicted deaths which have happened in your CAMHS Tier 4. inpatient facilities from January 2016 to December 2020
• The number of self-inflicted deaths which have happened in your ADULT Mental Health inpatient facilities from January 2016 to December 2020
If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under your Section 16 obligations, as to how I can refine my request to be included in the scope of the Act.
In any case, if you can identify ways that my request could be refined, please provide further advice and assistance to indicate this before the 20 day limit. I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be happy to clarify what I am asking for.