How many cases of self harm, other than suicide attempts, have resulted in hospital admissions in each of the last five years.

Table 1 presents informationabout the number of episodes in Scotland in the last five years where a diagnosis of selfharm is reported. It is not possible to determine from national data whetherfor any episode the incident of self harm was a suicide attempt or not.
In-patient And Day CaseDischarges1 From Acute General and Psychiatric
Hospitals in Scotlandwith Any Mention of a Diagnosis of Intentional Self Harm2

| Year End
| Year End
| Year End
| Year End
| Year End


| 31-Mar
| 31-Mar
| 31-Mar
| 31-Mar
| 31-Mar


| 1998
| 1999
| 2000
| 2001
| 2002 P

Acute General Hospitals

| 17 166
| 16 311
| 16 218
| 14 656
| 16 153

Psychiatric Hospitals

| 140
| 149
| 140
| 129
| 131

Source: ISD ScotlandSMR01, SMR04.
P Data for psychiatrichospital discharges in 2001-02 are provisional.
Notes:
1. Information on hospitaldischarges relates to episodes of in-patient or day case care rather thanindividual patients. The same patient may therefore account for severalhospital admissions during the course of a year (or across years) and will becounted each time in the table above. In addition the figures for acute generaland psychiatric hospitals are not mutually exclusive. For example, a patientmay be admitted to an acute general hospital (SMR01) and then subsequentlyadmitted to a psychiatric unit (SMR04). Such a patient will be counted twice,once in the discharge figures for acute general hospitals and again for theirepisode in a psychiatric hospital.
2. Intentional self harm isdefined as International Classification of Diseases 10th revision (ICD10) codesX60 to X84.
Ref: IR2003-01510, Date: 28 November 2003.