Table 1.

Summary hospital characteristics and variation in management of self-harm patients across 32 English hospitals in 2010/2011

	Service scale score (maximum 21)	Total individuals during audit	Total episodes during audit	Episodes receiving specialist psychosocial assessment*	Episodes admitted to a medical bed	Episodes with referral for mental health follow-up care*	Episodes admitted to a psychiatric ward*
Median (range)	14.5 (10.5–19)	186 (85–450)	223 (90–518)	58% (24–88)	54% (22–85)	28% (11–64)	7% (0–21)

*Information was based on 31 hospitals because mental health records were not accessed in one hospital.