Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 15121

Health Services: Missing Persons

Tabled: 19 November 2024
Answered: 28 November 2024

Question

Rachel Gilmour

Liberal DemocratTiverton and Minehead

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been reported missing from (a) hospitals and (b) other health care settings in each of the last four years for which data is available.

Answer

The following table shows a count of patient safety incidents, reported as occurring where the incident category is absconder or missing patient, broken down by care setting, each year from 2020/21 to 2023/24:Care setting of occurrence2020/212021/222022/2...

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