Psychiatric Patients: Children
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the levels of readmission rates among mental health inpatients aged 0-17.
Answered by Dr Zubir Ahmed
The following table shows the number of readmissions and the percentage of all admissions that were readmissions for children and young people’s mental health inpatient services, for 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, and from April to August of 2025/26:
Year | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 |
Number of readmissions | 197 | 196 | 157 | 83 |
Percentage of admissions that were readmissions | 7.9% | 8.7% | 7.5% | 9.3% |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset, NHS England.
A readmission is any admission which takes place within 90 days of a previous discharge, for the same patient.
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