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E-mail: freedomofinformation@ghc.nhs.uk Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
DATE: 16/07/2021
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Janet Eastham
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Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 154-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
Please note we do not have a CAMH Eating Disorder Service – We have an Eating Disorders Service for both young people and adults and therefore have included data for anyone under 18 in this service.
1. During this time period, please give the number of CYP referred to your CAMH for:
• CAMH services i.e., including treatment for symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms.;
• CAMH Eating Disorder services. Referrals 2019/20 2020/21
CAMHs 4419 4478
Eating Disorders >18 261 393
2. Of these, how many were emergency referrals for:
• CCAMH services;
• CAMH Eating Disorder services? Emergency/Urgent referrals – we do not have emergency referrals for Eating Disorders – only urgent or routine, therefore have included urgent.
2019/20 2020/21
CAMHs Emergency 2 3
Eating Disorders >18 Urgent 45 108
3. During this time period, please give the number of CYP waiting longer than 12 weeks without contact by services for: • CAMH services;
• CAMH Eating Disorder services.
We have excluded any adjustments for DNAs or patient cancellations. Waited longer than 12 weeks for 1st contact we have excluded any adjustments for DNAs or patient cancellations.
2019/20 2020/21
CAMHs 228 98
Eating Disorders >18 9 6
4. During this time period, please give the number of CYP whose referral was closed before treatment, and who were referred for:
• CAMH services;
• CAMH Eating Disorder services. There is no national definition of treatment and therefore we are unable to report at which attendance “treatment” would start Eating Disorders – We cannot extract numbers of patients where treatment was due to start and then they were discharged only numbers that were discharged after assessment and this could be for a variety of reasons which we do not record in an extractable form.
5. For CYP whose referrals were closed before treatment, please provide all the reasons why this happened. There is no national definition of treatment and therefore we are unable to report at which attendance “treatment” would start Eating Disorders – We cannot extract numbers of patients where treatment was due to start and then they were discharged only numbers that were discharged after assessment and this could be for a variety of reasons which we do not record in an extractable form.
6. Please give the number of CYP still waiting for treatment on 31 March 2020 and 31 March 2021, and who have not been contacted for:
• CAMH services; • CAMH Eating Disorder services. CAMHS – We cannot give a response for the reasons given above
2019/20 2020/21
Eating Disorders >18 8 26
Should you have any queries in relation to our response in this letter, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:-
– Associate Director of Corporate Governance Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth
GLOUCESTER GL3 4AW
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Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
On behalf of Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
FOI Request
Sent: 20 June 2021 17:45
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request - CAMH Mental Health Referral data
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-------------------------Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
I am requesting data on children and young people CYP. accessing mental health services, including eating disorder services. Please exclude all data relating to CYP accessing learning disability and autism services.
If helpful, you may wish to collect this data from the final submissions to the Mental Health Services Data Set MHSDS. you will have made.
Contact can include assessment over telephone and/or video conferencing, but can not include text, email or letter contact.
A few pointers:
- Please simply answer the questions which relate to services you run. If you do not run eating disorder services, simple answer for the CAMH services you do run.
- The questions are in order of priority. Please simply answer as many questions as you are able within the time limit you have, and send all the information you are able to gather to me. This means you cannot apply S121., as I am only asking you to answer the questions you can within the legal time limit.
- For questions 4 and 5, please answer for all referrals closed before treatment, including but not limited to referrals that have been closed before treatment because the referral was screened and it was decided more appropriate to signpost the CYP to other services, and referrals closed before treatment after the CYP were accepted into the service for treatment.
Please answer questions 1 to 5 for the two following time periods:
Time period A. 1st April 2019 to 31 March 2020 Time period B. 1st April 2020 to 31 March 2021
1. During this time period, please give the number of CYP referred to your CAMH for:
1.1 CAMH services i.e., including treatment for symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms.;
1.2 CAMH Eating Disorder services.
2. Of these, how many were emergency referrals for:
2.1 CCAMH services;
2.2 CAMH Eating Disorder services?
3. During this time period, please give the number of CYP waiting longer than 12 weeks without contact by services for:
3.1 CAMH services;
3.2 CAMH Eating Disorder services.
4. During this time period, please give the number of CYP whose referral was closed before treatment, and who were referred for:
4.1 CAMH services;
4.2 CAMH Eating Disorder services.
5. For CYP whose referrals were closed before treatment, please provide all the reasons why this happened.
6. Please give the number of CYP still waiting for treatment on 31 March 2020 and 31 March 2021, and who have not been contacted for:
6.1 CAMH services;
6.2 CAMH Eating Disorder services.
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