1. For each of the financial years from 2016-17 to 2021-22 and for 2022-23 to the latest completed month (likely end of October 2022), please outline how many mental health patients* have had waits in emergency departments, from decision to admit to admission, discharge, or transfer of a) between 12 and 24 hours b) 24 to 48 hours c) 48 to 72 hours d) 72 hours or more?
2. For each financial year, please provide the length of wait for all occurrences of individual waits lasting 72 hours or more.
3. Please provide a list of occasions (with patient identifying details redacted) where the trust has contacted a partnering mental health trust, CCG, ICS, NHS England or other statutory body to notify that there were no mental health beds available within a) the ICS area b) the NHS region c) England, Scotland or Wales.
4. As per the national Core 24 target, does your trust have an emergency mental health liaison team/liaison psychiatry team available to patients attending emergency departments? *
5. If yes, please provide a breakdown of staff employed in these roles by role, band and whether they are full-time equivalent or other. **
6. If yes, please provide details as regards the hours the team are available to patients and typical staffing levels during those hours. **
