I have been looking into this FOI request and unfortunately am unable to answer it fully or accurately.
– The request refers to time spent in A&E, but since GHC only has MIIUs, I have been looking at attendances to those instead, which may not be what the requester needs. – ‘Mental Health’ is only identifiable loosely through a PatientGroup option where the categories are either ‘Deliberate Self Harm’ or ‘Psychiatric’. These may not encompass all Mental Health attendances
– Data for this PatientGroup Category is only robust for the financial years 2017/2018 to 2019/2020 due to changes in the way data is recorded within our clinical system.
FOI Request
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your trust. Please may you provide me with:
1. Total time, in hours, children spent in A&E, each financial year, since 2010, where their chief complaint was mental health related.
2. Total time, in hours, adults spent in A&E, each financial year, since 2010, where their chief complaint was mental health related.
Please provide the data in a table format.