Question follow-through · 15121
Health Services: Missing Persons
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been reported missing from (a) hospitals and (b) other health care settings in each of the last four years for which data is available.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 28 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been reported missing from (a) hospitals and (b) other health care settings in each of the last four years for which data is available.
21 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2024
Answer published
The following table shows a count of patient safety incidents, reported as occurring where the incident category is absconder or missing patient, broken down by care setting, each year from 2020/21 to 2023/24:Care setting of occurrence2020/212021/222022/2...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Blood Cancer: Health Services
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