Serious Untoward Incidents

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Dear Dr Amit Mukherjee,

I am writing in respect of your recent request for information to Barnet,
Enfield, and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (“The Trust”) under the
provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“The Act”) which we
received on 29 March 2023.

We have considered your request under section 1(1) of the Freedom of
Information Act which entitles you to be provided with any information
held by a public authority unless an appropriate exemption applies.

Request:

Please could you inform us- how many SUIs ( serious untoward incidents )
have occurred in the last 5 years in your Trust?

Please classify them further

1] as suicide/ homicide/ others

2] how many of these SUIs were in the in-patient department and how many
were in the community.

Response:

Incident Type of no. of SIs commissioned    
Financial No. of SI reviews Suspected Homicide Other    
year commissioned Suicides
Community: 12
2022/23 33 Inpatient:<Less 0 Community: 12
than 5 Inpatient: 8
Community: 15 Community: Community: 8
2021/22 29 Inpatient: <Less <Less than Inpatient:
than 5 5 <Less than 5
2020/21 39 Community: 22 0 Community:  8
Inpatient: 0 Inpatient: 9
2019/20 48 Community: 21 0 Community: 12
Inpatient: 0 Inpatient:15
Community: 8 Community:
2018/19 51 Inpatient: <Less <Less than Community: 29
than 5 5 Inpatient:12

***Where reference is made to <Less than 5 the information is exempt under
Section 40(2) of the Act on grounds that the information may contain
person sensitive information. Given figures are relatively low, disclosure
of the information could potentially result in deductive disclosure of
personal information when combined with other sources of information; and
result in a breach in General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As such,
we have not provided the exact figure above.

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Freedom of Information Manager

Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

St Ann’s Hospital, London N15 3TH

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