Table 1.
Area of England | Population aged ≥16 (000s) | Civil involuntary admissions per 100 000 population aged ≥16 | % change in rate of civil involuntary admissions | |||
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1989 (14 RHAs) | 2003 (28 SHAs) | 1989 | 2003 | |||
North | 10 575* | 10 484† | 37.5 | 54.6 | 46 | |
West Midlands | 4225 | 4240‡ | 34.7 | 62.1 | 79 | |
East Midlands | 3817§ | 4443¶ | 31.9 | 47.7 | 50 | |
East Anglia | 1701 | 1800** | 33.1 | 51.9 | 57 | |
South West and South Central | 7195†† | 7201‡‡ | 34.2 | 55.3 | 62 | |
South East | 11 412§§ | 11 885¶¶ | 36.2 | 75.5 | 109 | |
England | 38 925 | 40 053 | 36.2 | 60.7 | 68 |
RHAs=regional health authorities; SHAs=strategic health authorities.
*Northern; Yorkshire; Mersey; and North Western.
†Northumberland, Tyne, and Wear; County Durham and Tees Valley; North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire; West Yorkshire; Cumbria and Lancashire; Greater Manchester; and Cheshire and Merseyside.
‡Shropshire and Staffordshire; Birmingham and the Black Country; and Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire.
§Trent.
¶Trent; Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Rutland; and South Yorkshire.
**Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire.
††Wessex; Oxford; and South Western.
‡‡Thames Valley; Hampshire and Isle of Wight; Avon, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire; Dorset and Somerset; and South West Peninsula.
§§North West Thames; North East Thames; South East Thames; and South West Thames.
¶¶Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire; Essex; North West London; North Central London; North East London; South East London; South West London; Kent and Medway; and Surrey and Sussex.