New emergency and short-term orders granted, by MHO Local Authority, quarterly data
Tables 23 - 54 show numbers of emergency and short-term orders for each local authority based on the employing authority of the mental health officer who signed the certificate.
Emergency detention certificates
Mental Health Officers were not recorded as having been consulted in 37% of emergency detention cases and therefore the local authority is not given. (see Table 55). This is down from 42% from quarter 4 2008. There is considerable movement of MHO's between local authority areas, to provide out-of-hours services. For this reason, we have decided not to publish rates of emergency detentions by area, or to attempt to compare areas.
Short-term detentions
The rates of short-term orders granted have changed little in the quarter, remaining highly variable between local authority areas. They range from 25 per 100,000 population in North Lanarkshire, to 113 per 100,000 population in Glasgow City (excluding the island authorities).
Notes on the data:
Population figures used to calculate rates are projections for Mid 2008 (from General Register Office for Scotland), updated in April 2009.
May 2009
