Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: December 2023, MHSDS: November 2023
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Announcement of a delay to the February '24 publication!
Unfortunately we are having to delay the Learning Disability Services Monthly Publication which is due to be published on Thursday 15th February. We have found issues to some processing which has resulted in missing data in the publication outputs and are currently looking to resolve these with urgency. Until the issue is fixed we do not have an estimated date as to when we can issue the publication. NHS England apologise for any inconvenience caused by this delay and are working hard to issue this publication as soon as we can. the publication affected is the below:
12 February 2024 15:00 PM
Changing the submission windows for the Mental Health Services Data
To provide more timely statistics in the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics and Learning Disability Services publication series, from October 2023 activity, revised submission windows have been introduced to support a move to reporting performance data in the month following activity. Editions of the series from this one onwards are affected by this change, and each publication page will contain data relating to one month only.
The September 2023 performance publication contains all data relating to the reporting period in it.
The October 2023 performance publication does likewise with the exception of restraints data. This is because the restraints data is being published in the second month following the activity. Providers have indicated that there is often some delay until the restraints data is available for them to submit. As a result, the timeliness with which NHS England receives restraints does not currently support 'first cut' reporting, although it may do in the future should timeliness improve.
The October 2023 publication will have ‘second cut’ restraints data added to it on 18th January 2024. We will also publish November 2023 data on this day, again omitting the ‘first cut’ restraints data (assuming timeliness is still an issue), ensuring it is added in February 2024 once 'second cut' restraints data is available.
For more information on the submission windows for MHSDS and how they are changing please see the below link:
Changing the submission windows for the Mental Health Services Data - NHS Digital
18 January 2024 09:30 AM
The Master Provider and Site List in Assuring Transformation
From October 2023 a Master Provider and Site List (MPSL) has been developed for mental health inpatient services for people with a learning disability and autistic people. This MPSL has been incorporated into Assuring Transformation on the Clinical Audit Platform (CAP) so that data submitters can pick from a much smaller list of inpatient services for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
For more information on the MPSL please click the below link:
Assuring Transformation on the Clinical Audit Platform master provider and site list - NHS Digital
18 January 2024 09:30 AM
About the Mental Health Services Dataset
Background
From October 2021, these statistics are derived from submissions made using version 5.0 of MHSDS.
This release comprises:
- A summary of findings which presents provider level analysis of key measures based on data submitted.
- Excel data tables covering a wide range of data covered by the collection.
- A monthly CSV file which presents key measures at provider level based on data submitted.
The MHSDS was introduced on the 1 January 2016 and superseded the following standards:
- ISB 0011 Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Dataset (MHLDDS)
- ISB 1072 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Dataset
- ISB 1509 Mental Health Care Cluster
- ISB 1078 Mental Health Clustering Tool
The changes incorporate requirements in support of Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT), elements of the Learning Disabilities Census (LDC) and elements of the Assuring Transformation (AT) Information Standard. Information provided in this release therefore covers, learning disabilities and autism services for all ages. Learning disabilities and autism services have been included in MHSDS (and its previous guises) since September 2014.
The measures reported in this publication are usually badged as experimental statistics and will be released as such, until the characteristics of data flowed using the current data standard are fully understood. Experimental statistics are official statistics which are published in order to involve users and stakeholders in their development and as a means to build in quality at an early stage. It is important that users understand that limitations may apply to the interpretation of this data.
As a result of the cyber incident that occurred in July 2022, several providers of mental health data were affected, so MHSDS national and ICB level data from August 2022 to March 2023 was not published in the monthly Learning Disabilities and Autism publication.
Due to data remediation work that has been undertaken in the interim with the affected providers, we will now be publishing MHSDS national and ICB level data again from April 2023 onwards.
Further information on people using NHS funded secondary mental health services can be found within the main MHSDS monthly publication.
Scope of collection
Information is presented by hospital spells and ward stays in this report. A hospital spell is a continuous period of inpatient care under a single Hospital Provider starting with a hospital admission and ending with a discharge from hospital. A ward stay is within a hospital spell so one hospital spell could include more than one ward stay for a patient if they have moved wards. The counts of hospital spells are therefore different to the count of ward stays and would expect the count of ward stays to be greater. However, submissions have to include hospital spell information but not necessarily ward stay information. Where the number of ward stays are less than hospital spells, this indicates that information about the ward where patients were receiving care was not provided for everyone in hospital. Despite the limitations of the ward stay information, it is still used in the report as it provides more detailed information than hospital spells about the episode of care.
Figures on the use of restrictive interventions in inpatient LDA services from MHSDS are subject to a number of data quality issues (see Data Quality Section for further information). Therefore, these figures should be interpreted with caution.
Last edited: 6 March 2024 8:57 am