Amount of referrals to CAMHS over the past five years

Original Request

For each month since January 2019, how many referrals for: (a) Anxiety (b) Bipolar Affective Disorder (c) Depression (d) Eating Disorders (e) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (f) Personality Disorder (g) Phobias (h) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (i) Schizophrenia (j) Self-Harm (k) Social Phobia (l) Substance Abuse Have there been to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.

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Full Response Text

Manx Care Noble’s Hospital, Strang Braddan, Isle of Man IM4 4R (01624) 650 000

Our ref: 4094321 19 September 2024

Dear ###

We write further to your request, received 2 September 2024, which states:

"For each month since January 2019, how many referrals for:

(a) Anxiety

(b) Bipolar Affective Disorder

(c) Depression

(d) Eating Disorders

(e) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

(f) Personality Disorder

(g) Phobias

(h) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

(i) Schizophrenia

(j) Self-Harm

(k) Social Phobia

(l) Substance Abuse

Have there been to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service."

Our response to your request is as follows:

The service are currently unable to distinguish internal referrals verses external referrals, so some of these numbers will include referrals within the CAMHS Team. In particular since December 2023 when a new process for referral management was implemented.

For each month since January 2019 the following referrals were made to CAMHS:

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

January 47 50 34 58 57 68 February
54 45 45 64 73 77 March 72 53 27 70 63 150 April 54 29 36 45 55 127 May 61 33 77 63 62 138 June 38 41 67 51 75 67 July
51 53 47 69 74 114 August 44 41 28 34 32 74 September 36 45 40 69 90

October
61 63 51 56 71

November 53 79 66 82 86

December 39 85 44 67 60

The service are also unable to identify at referral the categories requested, the referral reasons we have recorded are:

Referral Reason

Advice / Information
2 Assessment
123 At Risk / Concern - Child 2 Crisis Intervention Assessment
4 Information Received 2 MARM Meeting Request 3 Mental Health
3,951 Mental Health Act 1 Other 32 Request for Information
1 Therapeutic Approach
8

Please quote the reference number 4094321 in any future communications.

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