Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey: Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, England, 2023/4

First of all, we want to thank all the people who so generously gave their time to participate in this survey, particularly as the interview was long and covered sensitive topics.

Running a national survey relies on the expertise of many people. We thank the professional and committed interviewers at the National Centre for Social Research; the field staff, especially Deborah Healey and the team of Field Performance Managers and the field training and recruitment team; programming team, particularly Minesh Patel, Colin Miceli and Alessio Fiacco; Anna Keyes and Alina Carabat for statistical expertise; Katie Ridout, Eleanor Young, Helena Wilson and Tua Nadege for survey management; Alicia Brown, Elizabeth Fuller, Niah Keval, Greta Liubertiene and Kitty Sunnucks for help with reporting; Mari Toomse-Smith for quality assurance; the data operations team; the data management team including Abigail Timpe and Maya Patel; and former colleagues Julie Weaver and Melissa Hutchinson. In addition, we would like to thank the report authors and contributors: Monica Bennett, Sarah Butt, Elizabeth Clery, Emily Cretch, Maria David, Greta Liubertiene, Ioana Maxineanu, Conor O'Shea, Ellen Randall, Katie Ridout, Simrit Roop, Abigail Sloman, Samantha Spencer, Charles Wilson and Eleanor Young.

Traolach Brugha, University of Leicester, led the second phase of the survey. Zoe Morgan and Samuel Tromans ran this and coordinated a committed team of clinical interviewers: Adesope Abolanle, Shazia Ahmed, Priscilla Akosile, Abdul Khan, Chris Reid, David Smyth. Dolly Sud advised on the classification of medications covered in the survey.

Susan Purdon, Bryson Purdon Social Research, designed the phase one and two sampling and Words of Colour provided valuable advice and media support around engagement with underrepresented communities. We are indebted to academic collaborators for guidance throughout the project: Agnes Ayton, Louis Appleby, Kirsten Barnicot, Vishal Bhavsar, Charlotte Clark, Jeremy Coid, Claudia Cooper, Jayati Das-Munshi, Colin Drummond, Nicola Fear, Tamsin Ford, Fiona Gullon-Scott, Angela Hassiotis, Stephani Hatch, Rachel Jenkins, Ann John, Steven Marwaha, Orla McBride, Rose McCabe, Paul Moran, Dasha Nicholls, Sian Oram, Francesca Solmi, Heather Wardle, Scott Weich and Simon Wessely.

Additionally, we are grateful to the past and present Steering Group members for their support and contributions provided throughout the survey:

• NHS England: Chris Roebuck, Cher Cartwright, Walt Treloar, Mila Savic, Fiona Daley, Sarah Furnell, Dawn Liburd, Gary Childs, Victoria Kirkbride, Leila Reyburn, Michael Hunter, Tim Kendall and Matthew Wickenden.
• Department for Health and Social Care: Shamim Rahman, Emma Mehta, Nadia Yegorova-Johnstone, Cam Lugton, Joanna Moody, Jeremy Clark, Catherine Davies, Lily Makurah, Mihiri Seneviratne, Mark Cook and Alison Tingle.
• Independent members: Stephani Hatch (King's College London), Jayati Das-Munshi (Kings College London), Alex Viccars (Mind), Heather Wardle (University of Glasgow), Laura Balla (Gambling Commission), Jonathan Kelly (Beat), Agnes Ayton (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust & others).

NHS England commissioned the survey series with funding from the Department of Health and Social Care. We are particularly grateful to the Population Health Surveys Team: Fiona Daley, Sarah Furnell, Dawn Liburd and Nerys Davies and previous team members including Cher Cartwright, Sean Ryan, Victoria Cooper, Karen Shaw, Kate McCluskey and Farzana Ahmed; the Analytical Team: Walt Treloar, Mila Savic and Catherine Okello; and the valuable policy, clinical and analytical review of report chapters from: Andrew Armitage, Alison Braban, David Caldwell, Cher Cartwright, Gary Childs, David Clark, Dan Collinson, David Connelly, Paula Curnow, Rob Danks, Emily Davison, Rebecca DeBrick, David Fisher, Steph Gebert, Geoff Heyes, Chris Ince, Clare McConnell, Alex Mehaffey, James Roberts, Kathryn Salt, Hina Sharma, Sarah Stainton, Sharon Thandi, Mark Thaxter, Alex Tootle, Jess Waight, Adrian Whittington and Emilia Woch.

Sarah Morris, Suzanne Hill, Traolach Brugha, Sally McManus, editors