Analysis of psychiatric illness

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Dear Mr Thursfield,
 
Thank you for your FOI request of 2 February to the Department of
Health.  
 
In particular, you submitted the following request:
 
Please can you advise me if data is available to show the number of annual
diagnoses or number of patients being treated for each of the various
psychiatric conditions by DSM (or whatever code is used?) for each of the
last five years.
 
The Department of Health does not hold this information.  The NHS
Information Centre may hold this information.  The website can be found at
[1]www.ic.nhs.uk. 
 
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Yours sincerely,
 
Sarah Walter
Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 

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