Written answers

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Department of Health

Mental Health Services Provision

Photo of Patrick NultyPatrick Nulty (Dublin West, Labour)
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To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been discharged from psychiatric hospitals and the type of accommodation that they have been discharged into in each of the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40371/12]

Photo of Kathleen LynchKathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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The number of discharges from psychiatric units and hospitals during the period 2004-2010 is set out in the following table.

YearNumber of Discharges
200421,938
200521,265
200620,098
200720,498
200820,603
200920,213
201019,614

The figures for 2011 and 2012 are not yet available. Information on the type of accommodation to which patients are discharged is not collected.

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