Only 5 of 50 NHS Trusts Could Count Psychiatric Inpatient Parents
A 2026 Freedom of Information survey of all 50 English NHS trusts providing inpatient psychiatric care found a basic visibility failure: only 5 trusts could say how many psychiatric inpatients were parents, only 11 could describe routine parental-status data collection, and only 1 held child-visit data.1 Research Highlights Parent counts were mostly unavailable: 5 of …