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<p>From the data held centrally, we are unable to differentiate between transfers
to (1) psychiatric and (3) other hospitals. Further, for (2) prisons do not have psychiatric
wings, and data on occupancy of dedicated residential healthcare facilities in prisons
are not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We can provide the total number of prisoners
who have been transferred to hospital under sections 47 (sentenced prisoners) or 48
(remand prisoners/immigration detainees) of the Mental Health Act 1983 in the last
12 months and this is set out below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-2019</p></td><td><p>94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-2019</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-2019</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-2019</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-2019</p></td><td><p>91</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-2019</p></td><td><p>73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-2019</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-2020</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-2020</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-2020</p></td><td><p>79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-2020</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-2020</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with
any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and
processing.</p><p>Information is collected on the number of transfers, not the number
of individual prisoners who are transferred. An individual prisoner may be transferred
more than once in any given time period.</p><p>We take the mental health of prisoners
extremely seriously, which is why we have increased the support available to vulnerable
offenders - especially during the first 24 hours in custody - and invested more in
mental health awareness training for prison officers.</p>
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