Self harming figures since 2015 (FOI)

​​​Request

A

How many referrals have been made to specialists at the hospital for teenagers who have self-harmed from 2015 to date? 

B

How many referrals have been made to specialists at the hospital for adults who have self-harmed from 2015 to date? 

C

How many referrals have been made to specialists at the hospital for teenagers who have self-harmed from 2015 to date? 

D

Please confirm, by age and by sex, the number of people who have been treated in the Emergency Department due to self-harm from 2015 to date. 

Response

A to C

Referral data are not held in a format that allows identification and reporting of instances where self-harm is documented as a reason for referral to mental health specialists. Such information would be documented in individual case notes, but cannot be identified from central records. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

D

Data for attendances at Jersey General Hospital’s Emergency Department due to self-harm, annually from 2015 to 2023, and from January 2024 to July 2024 (inclusive), are provided in the attached tables. 

Table 1 - Attendances by Age Group.pdf

Table 2 - Attendances by Gender.pdf

​Figures detail the total number of attendances. Individuals may attend more than once in the same time period, with each attendance counted.

Table 1 details attendances for each time period broken down by age group. Information on the gender of those attending for each time period is provided in Table 2. 

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​​