(2) how many episodes of treatment for mentally ill patients were completed in each of the last 10 years.
Information is not available in the requested format. Information on the number of finished episodes under the care of consultants in the psychiatry group in each of the last 10 years is shown in the table.
Learning disability Adult mental illness Child and adolescent psychiatry Forensic psychiatry Psychotherapy Old age psychiatry 700 710 711 712 713 715 2004-05 26,422 131,668 2,083 1,825 277 44,690 2003-04 29,954 137,449 2,068 1,868 309 45,320 2002-03 36,466 143,631 2,297 1,716 346 49,084 2001-02 34,737 148,460 2,240 1,852 230 49,159 2000-01 36,367 152,371 2,055 1,712 235 50,573 1999-2000 39,221 157,193 2,015 1,700 94 53,882 1998-99 42,165 160,610 1,960 1,673 54 51,816 1997-98 43,304 162,008 2,048 1,508 53 50,337 1996-97 45,887 165,316 2,207 1,285 63 51,731 1995-96 50,680 175,289 2,123 1,136 68 51,644 Notes: 1. Care is needed when analysing hospital episode statistics (HES) data by specialty, or by groups of specialties (such as Acute). Trusts have different ways of managing specialties and attributing codes so it is better to analyse by specific diagnoses, operations or other recorded information. 2. Finished Consultant Episode (FCE). 3. An FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one health care provider. The figures do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the year. Sources: 1. Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). 2. The Information Centre for Health and Social Care.
The Department is currently working with the national health service information centre and the NHS to develop a classification system for mental health services. The Department will provide further progress on these developments in the document “Future of Payment by Results: 2008-09 and beyond” to be published early in 2007.
The Government have long accepted that psychotherapists, counsellors and other talking therapists require statutory regulation in the interests of public protection. Once a prerequisite infrastructure is in place to provide statutory regulation, the Government intend that the Health Professions Council will regulate psychotherapists and counsellors.
The public consultation on proposals to reform the regulation of medical and non-medical healthcare professions closed on 10 November 2006. Ministers will shortly consider the future work programme on healthcare professional regulation in the light of the responses received and the Government’s own policy objectives.
Skills for Health launched an initial competence framework identifying the scope of practice involved in psychotherapy and counselling, for consultation between 1 December 2006 and 28 February 2007. This will inform the standards for statutory regulation.