Schizophrenia and other non-mood disorders

Reference: 24-25356

Date response sent: 09/12/2024

Details of enquiry

Reference: 24-25356/2

a. In the last 12 months (of data), in total how many patients with Schizophrenia and other non-mood disorders (F20-F29 inclusive) were managed by your Trust.

b. In the last 12 months (of data), in total how many patients diagnosed Schizophrenia (F20 only) were managed by your Trust.

Your answers will be used to inform plans to potentially support Early Intervention Psychosis or Community Mental Health teams. If information is available by type of service, and can be reported within the time limit, please also consider the following questions for patients with Schizophrenia and other non-mood disorders (F20- F29 inclusive ).

a. In the last 12 months (of data), how many patients with Schizophrenia and other non-mood disorders have been treated within each of the following services:

Early Intervention Psychosis service team
Community Mental Health Team

b. In the last 3 months (of data), how many patients with Schizophrenia had no change to the antipsychotic medication within each of the following services. This includes patients with no change in dose.

Early Intervention Psychosis service team
Community Mental Health Team

a. In the last 12 months (of data), how many patients with Schizophrenia and other non-mood disorders were discharged to primary care from each of the following services?

Early Intervention Psychosis service team
Community Mental Health Team

b. In the last 12 months (of data), how many patients with Schizophrenia and other non-mood disorders were discharged from the Early Intervention Psychosis service team to the Community Mental Health Team

Response sent

Please note that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist mental health Trust, and not a hospital. We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological services via talking therapies. We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, nor detention facilities, and do not have an A&E department.

The data provided below, relates to a service the Trust provides for Young People living in Camden; the Camden CAMHS Early Intervention Service for Psychosis. Details about this service may be reached on our website, via the following link: Camden CAMHS early intervention service for psychosis – Tavistock and Portman This service is provided for under 18s, though it does continue to treat over 18s if they were referred before they turned 18 years of age

a. In the last 12 months (of data), in total how many patients with Schizophrenia and other non-mood disorders (F20-F29 inclusive) were managed by your Trust.

b. In the last 12 months (of data), in total how many patients diagnosed Schizophrenia (F20 only) were managed by your Trust.

a. In the last 12 months (of data), how many patients with Schizophrenia and other non-mood disorders have been treated within each of the following services:

Early Intervention Psychosis service team

See above responses to Question 1a and 1b

Community Mental Health Team

Not applicable

Early Intervention Psychosis service team

≤ 5. We have masked this number as the symbol ‘≤ 5’, because it is a small number which risks identification of individuals.

Please see the explanatory note which explains the masking a low number later, towards the end of this response.

Community Mental Health Team

Not applicable

a. In the last 12 months (of data), how many patients with Schizophrenia and other non-mood disorders were discharged to primary care from each of the following services?

b. Early Intervention Psychosis service team

≤ 5. We have masked this number as the symbol ‘≤ 5’, because it is a small number which risks identification of individuals.

Please see the explanatory note which explains the masking a low number later, towards the end of this response.

c. Community Mental Health Team

Not applicable

d. In the last 12 months (of data), how many patients with Schizophrenia and other non-mood disorders were discharged from the Early Intervention Psychosis service team to the Community Mental Health Team

≤ 5. We have masked this number as the symbol ‘≤ 5’, because it is a small number which risks identification of individuals.

Please see the explanatory note which explains the masking a low number later, towards the end of this response

^1.

Explanatory Note: We have masked low numbers as the symbol ‘≤ 5’, which indicates where numbers are equal to 5 or less than 5.

It is the NHS Digital standard not to provide data where the numbers are smaller than 6 as this may lead to identification of individuals. For this reason and in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) Section 40(2) and Section 40(3a) (Personal Data) and Section 41(1) Information obtained in confidence from a third party, disclosure of this type of personal data or easily identifiable personal data would thus be unfair, breaching GDPR Principle (a): Lawfulness, fairness and transparency. As this is an absolute exemption, we do not have to apply the Public Interest Test when engaging this exemption

^2. The Trust recognises a high level of interest from public in how the public purse is spent on services, and must balance this against disclosure of small numbers and the years in which events occurred, which – whilst not directly identifying individuals, would nevertheless give rise to a disclosure of personal data, as follows:

As we are a small Trust there is a high chance of recognition/identification of particular patients by others, from the low numbers.
This masking of low numbers is not a just a question of considering the means reasonably likely to be used by general public, but also the means likely to be used by a determined person with a particular reason to want to identify individuals from data in the public domain now or in the future, and/or gained from other sources.