Mental Health Bulletin, 2022-23 Annual report

Two issues have been uncovered and fixed within the publication. The issues relate to:

• The LAD/UA breakdown for Age in metrics 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d were not displaying correctly in the CSV file. This has been fixed and now displays 'LAD/UA; Age Group (Higher Level)' as the Breakdown name with the correct data
• The metric 7h (Crude rate of restrictive interventions with NHS funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services per 1,000 occupied bed days) was calculated incorrectly for breakdowns which included a geographical and demographic split, for example ICB of Residence; Ethnicity (Higher Level). This data has been recalculated and republished.

In addition, new breakdowns have been added to the publication for: 

• Metric 7h with new breakdowns for ICB, ICB; Age Group (Lower Level), ICB; Ethnicity (Higher Level), ICB; Gender, ICB; IMD Decile
• Metric 17a with a new breakdown for LAD/UA

Historic data for Chapter 11, Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Community Services and Chapter 18, Referrals that accessed Individual Placement Support has been added to provide trends back to 2019-20. The additional CSVs published include the breakdowns and metrics published for 2022-23 dated back to 2019-20. Please note, for measures which provide population rates, these are based on the 2021 Census inline with the data used in this publication, not mid year estimates for the relevant reporting period.

As part of the updates for 2023-24, a number of minor issues have been corrected in this publication to align with the data for 2023-24. National totals are not impacted by these changes and most changes relate to relabelling. Only the following issues impacted data:

• An issue was uncovered relating to the Sub ICB population data for Surrey and Sussex. This meant that rates for these areas were incorrectly calculated
• 2 bed types, 16 and 18, were included in the Adult Specialist grouping when they were not valid as per the v5 TOS. We have amended the grouping for these for 23-24 and so when backdating for 22-23 some data moved from adult specialist to invalid.
• Some breakdowns were published as 0 for the crude rates in chapter 10. These have been amended to show the correct figures.
• For provider data only, the average number of daily occupied beds was calculated incorrectly. Corrected figures are now included.

A full list of the corrections can be found below. 

A small number of rows were identified as duplicate rows in chapters 15, 16, 17 and 18. In these cases, one rows presented held the correct value. The other value presented was 0. In these cases the rows including the 0 has been removed. The remaining data is unaffected.