The data collected record the number of mental health and learning disability secure unit beds in national health service units, not the number of psychiatric secure unit beds.
The following table shows the average daily number of available secure unit beds, both mental illness and learning disability secure unit beds, in NHS organisations in London between 2003-04 and 2005-06.
2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 Organisation Mental illness Learning disability Mental illness Learning disability Mental illness Learning disability Total for London 800 17 831 17 823 16 Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust 69 0 75 0 75 0 West London Mental Health NHS Trust 176 0 175 0 175 0 Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust 135 0 157 0 184 0 Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust 26 0 17 0 24 0 East London and the City Mental Health NHS Trust 95 0 112 0 138 0 Oxleas NHS Trust 84 0 84 0 84 0 South London and Maudsley NHS Trust 114 17 114 17 46 16 South West London and St. George's Mental Health NHS Trust 101 0 97 0 97 0 Source: Department of Health form KH03.
Note that these beds are from mental health providers in the London area, so they may not all be available for residents in London. There may be beds outside the London area that are used for residents within London. This can be due to the placement needs of individuals.
The source for these figures is the 'Department of Health Dataset KH03' and the definitions for the purposes of this collection are as follows.
These figures do not represent the full level of secure services available to the NHS. Low secure mental health services are not consistently defined and may well fall outside the definitions below. This means that the figures above mainly show the numbers in high and medium secure mental health services in NHS units. These figures also show NHS beds only and not those commissioned by the NHS and provided by independent sector providers.
The definitions of mental health and learning disability secure unit beds, for the purposes of the KH03 annual beds collection, are:
Mental illness—other ages, secure unit
An age group intended of National Code 8 ‘Any age’, a broad patient group code of National Code 5 ‘Patients with mental illness’ and a clinical care intensity of National Code 51 ‘for intensive care: specially designated ward for patients needing containment and more intensive management. This is not to be confused with intensive nursing where a patient may require one to one nursing while on a standard ward’.
Learning disabilities—other ages, secure unit
An age group intended of National Code 8 ‘Any age’, a broad patient group code of National Code 6 ‘Patients with learning difficulties’ and a clinical care intensity of National Code 61 ‘designated or interim secure unit’.
From the data dictionary at:
www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/datadictionary/data_dicionary/messages/central_returns/hospital_aggregated_statistics/kh03/kh03_3_fr.asp