Hospital Admissions due to Psychedelics Consumption    

FOI REFERENCE: 24063 FOI DATE: 23^rd April 2024

1) How many times ‘microdosing’ psychedelic substances were included as a reason for hospital admissions in your trust in 2022, 2023 and 2024 to date.

We have audited all non-elective admissions from 01 Jan 2022 to 09 May 2024, and identified any admissions where a diagnosis from the list below was recorded in either the primary diagnosis field or any of the 29 secondary diagnosis fields.

2022 *

2023 *

2024 To date *

Total 6

2) How many times the consumption of psychedelic substances in any quantity was included as a reason for hospital admissions in your trust in 2022, 2023 and 2024 to date. See above

*This relates to low numbers between 1 and 5. Under section 40 (ii) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, statistically low numbers that potentially identify personal data are required to be withheld because of the Trusts obligation to protect personal data under the Data Protection Act 2018