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FOI 2024 119 - Suicides in Ceredigion

 

Information Requested:

How many suicides happened that involved women between ages of 16-70 broken down into each age category in Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire broken down into each county please between the years 2022-2024  

  

Who had been diagnosed with  

1. Depression 

2. Schizophrenia  

3. Personality Disorder  

4. Bipolar  

5. PTSD  

  

And were also known to 

1. Alcohol and drug services  

2. CAMHS/ community mental health teams  

3. Social services  

4. Had police involvement previously or current before their deaths  

  

Who also died due to 

1. Drug/prescription overdose  

2. Hanging  

3. Drowning  

4. Fall from height  

5. Suffocation  

  

How many suicides happened that involved men  between ages of 16-70 broken down into each age category in Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire broken down into each county please between the years 2022-2024  

  

Who had been diagnosed with  

1. Depression 

2. Schizophrenia  

3. Personality Disorder  

4. Bipolar  

5. PTSD  

  

And were also known to 

1. Alcohol and drug services  

2. CAMHS/ community mental health teams  

3. Social services  

4. Had police involvement previously or current before their deaths  

  

Who also died due to 

1. Drug/prescription overdose  

2. Hanging  

3. Drowning  

4. Fall from height  

5. Suffocation  

  

3.How many cases of E-coli have been recorded in Ceredigion since April 2024 to June 2024  

  

4. How many children from age of 0 up to the age of 16 are living in Poverty in Ceredigion in 2023 up until May 2024  

  

5. How many children from age of 0 up to the age of 16 are living in Poverty in Carmarthenshire in 2023 up until May 2024  

  

6. How many children from age of 0 up to the age of 16 are living in Poverty in Pembrokeshire in 2023 up until May 2024 

 

Information provided for the answer:

Thank you for your recent request. 

 

Public Health Wales do not hold the level of data you are requesting in relation to suicides.  

 

Public Health Wales is the public health service for Wales and as such is an independent NHS Trust. Therefore, do not have access to this information. As an organisation we have no jurisdiction over the activities of Health Boards and other NHS Wales organisations. This means we do not routinely have access to the data they produce.  I have provided contact details for the local Hywel Dda University health Board, you would need to contact them individually for any information they may hold in relation to the suicide data you are requesting. 

 

Hywel Dda University Health Board (Ceredigion 

http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/862/page/52085 

 

 

3. How many cases of E-coli have been recorded in Ceredigion since April 2024 to June 2024  

 

Between 01/04/2024 and 30/06/2024, 514 residents of Ceredigion LA had a sample taken that identified E. coli. 

  

4. How many children from age of 0 up to the age of 16 are living in Poverty in Ceredigion in 2023 up until May 2024  

 

Public Health Wales do not hold child poverty data to this level of detail requested. I have provided contact details for the local council, you would need to contact them individually for any information they may hold. 

 

Freedom of Information - Ceredigion County Council 

  

5. How many children from age of 0 up to the age of 16 are living in Poverty in Carmarthenshire in 2023 up until May 2024  

 

Public Health Wales do not hold child poverty data to this level of detail requested. I have provided contact details for the local council, you would need to contact them individually for any information they may hold. 

 

Freedom of Information (gov.wales) 

  

6. How many children from age of 0 up to the age of 16 are living in Poverty in Pembrokeshire in 2023 up until May 2024 

 

 

Public Health Wales do not hold child poverty data to this level of detail requested. I have provided contact details for the local  council, you would need to contact them individually for any information they may hold. 

 

Freedom of Information and Environmental Information - Pembrokeshire County Council 

 


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