Question reference: S6W-01064
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 25 June 2021
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 3 August 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been referred by their GP to mental health services in each year since 2016, also broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold data centrally on how many people have been referred by their GP to mental health services.
Public Health Scotland have provided the following table information showing the number of mental health inpatients referred by their GP for the calendar years 2016 to 2020, broken down by year of admission and NHS board of treatment. This information will not show referrals to non-statutory mental health services which routinely are not recorded. Patients will be counted multiple times if they have been admitted within the same board in different years, or different boards in the same year, or both. Complete figures for 2021 cannot yet be provided.
Health board | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Total |
Ayrshire and Arran | 54 | 19 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 111 |
Borders | * | * | * | * | * | 22 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 19 | 18 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 68 |
Forth Valley | 22 | 37 | 31 | 37 | 48 | 175 |
Grampian | 205 | 181 | 178 | 179 | 184 | 927 |
Highland | 210 | 174 | 146 | 101 | 65 | 696 |
Lothian | 64 | 42 | 40 | 35 | 35 | 216 |
Western Isles | - | * | * | - | - | 6 |
Fife | 244 | 212 | 144 | 144 | 66 | 810 |
Tayside | 55 | 43 | 65 | 52 | 44 | 259 |
Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 410 | 419 | 357 | 230 | 219 | 1,635 |
Lanarkshire | 58 | 34 | 28 | 16 | 35 | 171 |
Non-NHS Provider/Location | * | - | - | * | * | 6 |
Total | 1,357 | 1,184 | 1,027 | 816 | 718 | 5,102 |