Mental Health Inpatient Census 2022 Parts 1 and 2

Key points

Figure 1: Patients and beds have been decreasing since the first Inpatient Census in 2014.

Psychiatric, Addiction, or Learning Disability Inpatient Beds, NHS Scotland, March/April Census 2014-2022

• patients were most likely to be in an acute ward (35% of all patients).
• 254 (9%) adult inpatients had a diagnosis for either a learning disability or autism.
• 53% of adult inpatients also had a long-term physical health condition.
• there were 46 patients aged under 18 (2% of all patients) occupying the 54 available Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) beds at the 2022 Census.       
• there were 450 patients (15% of all patients) primarily managed by forensic services in the 2022 Census.
• there were 162 patients funded by, but treated outwith, NHS Scotland at the 2022 Census. Of these patients, 148 (91%) were treated in a private facility.