FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/02576
- Request Date
- July 19, 2018
- Subject
- Adult Mental Health & CAMHS Waiting List
- Description
- How many people are currently on the waiting list for Adult Mental Health in Blackpool?
- 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?
- How many children are currently on the waiting list for CAMHS in Blackpool?
- How many children on the waiting list for CAMHS have been on a waiting list for 6 months or more?
- In the year 2016/17 how many patients requiring inpatient mental health care could not be admitted due to bed shortage?
- In the year 2016/17, how many complaints were made to Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust regarding Adult Mental Health services and CAHMS?
- In the year 2016/17, how many admissions to the Accident and Emergency department was mental health related?
- How many patients admitted to inpatient mental health units in Blackpool in the year 2016/17 had no fixed address?
- 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
- 682
- 7
- 165
- 0
- N/A
- Adult Mental Health: 6
CAMHS: 5 - 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 - N/A
- 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.