Freedom of Information Request: 0358 2019/20
- Please can you tell me over the last five financial years how many people with a dementia diagnosis have been detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 under section 2 or section 3 of the act. Please specify whether section 2 or section 3 was used.
- Please specify where each person was detained e.g. hospital name
| Year | Section detained under | Patients Detained | Hospital |
| 2016/2017 | Section 2 | 3 | QEHB |
| 2018/2019 | Section 2 | 5 | QEHB |
| 2018/2019 | Section 3 | 1 | QEHB |
| 2018/2019 | Section 2 | 2 | Good Hope |
| 2018/2019 | Section 2 | 2 | Solihull |
Please note that for HGS, the system for recording Mental Health Act detention information was not implemented until January 2019, so therefore we can only provide the information from January 2019.
- Please can you also tell me how many people with a dementia diagnosis who were detained under the Mental Health Act have subsequently been turned down for after-care by a care home and if more than one care home has turned down after-care please can you state how many homes have done so.
UHB: We do not hold this information (we do not record to this detail)
