Wednesday 03 July 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7649
Date Request Received: 04/01/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 24/01/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Borderline Personality Disorder
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Please provide the following information in full for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. (Please note that I use the term 'borderline personality disorder' but would also like stats for 'emotionally unstable personality disorder' if that is the diagnostic term your trust uses.) Please provide your trust policy for borderline personality disorder diagnosis and treatment. | |
| Answer To Question 1: We are not funded to treat Borderline Personality Disorder, as such the Trust does not hold a policy in relation to treatment. Please see answer to Q6. | |
| Question Number 2: How much funding is received for the care of borderline personality disorder and how is this money spent? | |
| Answer To Question 2: We are not funded to treat Borderline Personality Disorder. Please see answer to Q6. | |
| Question Number 3: How many adult patients are there within the trust with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder? | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see our response to questions 3, 6 and 8 in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note that some small numbers have been concealed to protect patient confidentiality. To accompany this answer to question 3 please also see the documents listed below:  11911 - FOI_7649 - Borderline Personality Disorder.xlsx | |
| Question Number 4: What specialist treatments or therapeutic interventions do the trust facilitate for all patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder? | |
| Answer To Question 4: We are not funded to treat Borderline Personality Disorder. Please see answer to Q6. | |
| Question Number 5: How much does it cost the trust per year to provide medication to adults diagnosed with borderline personality disorder? | |
| Answer To Question 5: Please see answer to Q6 | |
| Question Number 6: How many patients/service users with borderline personality disorder require in-patient care and what is the cost of this? | |
| Answer To Question 6: Salisbury hospital is an acute NHS Trust and as such treats physical as opposed to mental health issues. While some of our patients may have a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder, this is not the condition for which they are admitted to the hospital. Only two patients have been admitted to hospital with this diagnosis in 2023 and in each case they were treated for physical injuries rather than the BPD condition. The question would be more appropriately directed at the local mental health trust: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership. | |
| Question Number 7: Does the trust provide dialectical behaviour therapy? If so, please provide the numbers of patients/service users who have used this service. If not, is there a plan to implement this treatment? | |
| Answer To Question 7: We are not funded to treat Borderline Personality Disorder. Please see answer to Q6. | |
| Question Number 8: How many suicides of patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder have there been each year? | |
| Answer To Question 8: Please see response to Q3. | |
| Question Number 9: How many complaints have been lodged in relation to borderline personality disorder treatment? | |
| Answer To Question 9: 0 (zero) | |
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