Publication, Part of Mental Health Bulletin
Mental Health Bulletin, 2023-24 Annual report
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Summary
This publication provides the most detailed picture available of people who used NHS funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services in England during the financial year 2023-24.
All the analysis included in this publication can be accessed in the associated machine-readable data file. Selected metrics and breakdowns at national level are also available in the reference tables. Information you need to know about the quality of these statistics and how they can be interpreted can be found in the main report. An interactive report is also available allowing you to explore some statistics in further detail.
Demographic analysis (age, gender, ethnicity and Index of Multiple Deprivation) is presented for 2023-24. Please consult previous editions of this publication series for demographic analysis for previous years. All annual and monthly publications relating to uses of mental health, learning disabilities and autism services can be found in the related links below. Please note that data for 2023-24 makes use of population data from the 2021 Census and mid year 2023 population estimates. There are instances where the populations have changed significantly between 2011 and 2021 and this should be considered when comparing rates for 2022-23 onwards with previous years.
NHS England is continually working to improve the relevance and usefulness of content in the Mental Health Bulletin. Following feedback, no further development of the Excel reference tables has been undertaken this year, despite the addition of new metrics and breakdowns. These breakdowns and metrics are included in the CSV however, and are also included in the interactive visualisation which accompanies this publication.
Please note, the CSV files accompanying this year's publication have been split up in order to allow users to open the CSV in Microsoft Excel. The chapters used are based on the Metric numbers in the publication. Chapters 2 and 3 were discontinued in previous years and as such the metric numbers have been retained and there is no chapter 2 or 3 in this publication.
Highlights
Mental Health publications consultation
NHS England are consulting on the future of Mental Health reporting. This consultation covers the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, the Mental Health Bulletin and the Mental Health Act, Annual Figures publications.
The consultation is designed to help make decisions about future reporting and to ensure that the data provided is as useful as possible. The survey link further down this this page (or here) is available for users to provide feedback directly.
If you would like to discuss your views in more detail with us, please email [email protected] including "Mental Health Publications consultation" in the subject.
Access the code used to create this report
The code used to create the outputs for this report is available on our NHS England GitHub webpage.
Key Facts
3,790,826 people were known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services at some point in the year. 1,139,355 of these were under 18 years of age.
6.6% of people in England were known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services during this year. This is compared to 6.3% of people in 2022-23 and 5.8% of people in 2021-22.
2.4% (92,119) of people known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services spent time in hospital as part of being in contact with these services during 2023-24. This is compared to 2.6% (91,945) in 2022-23 and 3.0% (97,160) in 2021-22.
Resources
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