Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: October 2023, MHSDS: August 2023
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
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
1 October 2023 00:00 AM
Changing the submission windows for the Mental Health Services Data
To provide more timely statistics in the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics publication series, from October 2023 activity, revised submission windows will be introduced to support a move to reporting performance data in the month following activity. Editions of the series from the December 2023 publication onwards will be affected by this change, however this edition of the series is unaffected.
In our December publication we will be publishing the following:
- AT November '23 data
- MHSDS LDA Sept '23 data with restrictive interventions data tables included but no comparators file
- MHSDS LDA Oct '23 data with no restrictive interventions data tables included but will include the comparators file using Oct '23 MHSDS data and latest cut of AT Oct '23 data
For October 2023, this publication will not contain restraints data as the restraints data is being published in the second month following the activity. Therefore the October 2023 publication will have the restraints data added to it on January 18th 2024. On this day we will also publish November 2023 data, again omitting the restraints data initially with it being added in February 2024.
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
1 October 2023 00:00 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: 16 November 2023 9:31 am