FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/03226
- Request Date
- July 23, 2019
- Subject
- Inpatient Assaults At Mental Health Facilities
- Description
I am looking for information about assaults which took place at inpatient mental health facilities. Please can I have the following information:
– Number of assault(s)
– Nature of assault (verbal, physical, both)
– Location of assault (ie name of facility, ‘X ward’)
– Assault report(s) (redacted for personal confidentiality as necessary)
Please could this information be separated into:
– Assault(s) by patient to another patient
– Assault(s) by patient to staff
– Assault(s) by staff to patient
Date range: every month and every year inclusive 1990 – 2019
- Response
We are an Acute General Hospital and not a Mental Health Unit/Hospital, Our Trust does not provide inpatient mental health care.
Inpatient mental health care in this area is provided by Lancashire Care Foundation Trust.
A link to their FOI team email address can be found here:
https://www.lancashirecare.nhs.uk/freedom-of-information-act