Numbers attending hospital after self-harming rise by 10%

There has been a 10% increase in the number of people presenting to hospitals due to self-harm in the last 10 years.

This is according to the latest figures from the National Self-Harm Registry Ireland, which is funded by the HSE’s National Office for Suicide Prevention.

Almost one third of the 8,909 people who visited emergency departments in 2016 as a result of self-harm did so more than once — there were 11,485 presentations last year.