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FOI Request

Disclosure ID
FOI/02576
Request Date
July 19, 2018
Subject
Adult Mental Health & CAMHS Waiting List
Description
  1. How many people are currently on the waiting list for Adult Mental Health in Blackpool?
  2. How many people currently on the waiting list for Adult Mental Health services in Blackpool have been on a waiting list for 6 months or more?
  3. How many children are currently on the waiting list for CAMHS in Blackpool?
  4. How many children on the waiting list for CAMHS have been on a waiting list for 6 months or more?
  5. In the year 2016/17 how many patients requiring inpatient mental health care could not be admitted due to bed shortage?
  6. In the year 2016/17, how many complaints were made to Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust regarding Adult Mental Health services and CAHMS?
  7. In the year 2016/17, how many admissions to the Accident and Emergency department was mental health related?
  8. How many patients admitted to inpatient mental health units in Blackpool in the year 2016/17 had no fixed address?
  9. How much money was allocated to Adult Mental Health services and CAMHS in the year 2016/17 and what was the actual expenditure for both?
Response
  1. 682
  2. 7
  3. 165
  4. 0
  5. N/A
  6. Adult Mental Health: 6
    CAMHS: 5
  7. We do not record patients as admitted with mental health illness, these numbers are defined in A&E as follows
    Presenting Complaints of
    -Behaving strangely
    -Mental illness
    -Overdose and poisoning
    -Self-harm
    And Discriminators of
    -Altered conscious level
    -Disruptive
    -High lethality
    -High risk of further self-harm
    -High risk of harm to others
    -High risk of self-harm
    -Marked distress
    -Moderate lethality
    -Moderate risk of further self-harm
    -Moderate risk of harm to others
    -Moderate risk of self-harm
    -Significant psychiatric history
    There were 3643 admissions under the above definitions in 2016/17
  8. N/A
  9. Please see below for all answers to Question 9
    Year Adult Mental Health Budget Adult Mental Health Actual Expenditure Variance CAMHS Budget CAMHS Actual Expenditure Variance
    2016/17 2,729,482.82 2,598,735.18  –  130,747.64 1,119,270.00 1,065,872.86 –  53,397.14
    2015/16 2,953,641.00 2,963,387.93      9,746.93 1,232,036.00 1,138,630.94 –  93,405.06
    2014/15 2,222,945.00 2,462,049.13 239,104.13 1,132,352.00 1,124,372.40  –    7,979.60
    2013/14 2,185,456.00 2,471,041.82 285,585.82 1,161,636.00 1,195,578.66     33,942.66

    Prior to 2013, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals did not host these services.

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