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Mental Health Bulletin, Fourth report from Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS) annual returns - 2010

Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Publication Date:
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Mental Health Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Country, Primary Care Organisations, Care Trusts, NHS Trusts, Local Authorities, Regions, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships, County
Date Range:
01 Apr 2008 to 31 Mar 2010

Summary

Further information about data quality was added to the National Reference Tables, Organisation level data tables and the MHMDS Statistics: Data Quality and Methodology document on 4 February 2011.

This is the fourth annual report on NHS adult specialist mental health services and the people who use them. It covers five years data from Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) with the most recent information being for 2009/10. The publication is accompanied by the largest ever release of NHS mental health service activity data, in accordance with the Government's public data agenda.

Highlights

Revised at 3pm, 11 January 2011

  • Over 1.25 million people used NHS specialist mental health services in the year 2009/10, the highest number since the data collection began in 2003/04 and a 4.0 per cent increase from 2008/09.
  • Over 90 per cent of people who used services did not spend any time as an inpatient during the year and the care they received outside hospital included approximately 12.5 million contacts with health and social care professionals.
  • Whilst the number of people using services rose across all ethnic groups, the percentage rise was noticeably larger for the Mixed ethnic group (a rise of 17.7 per cent). The Mixed and the Black and Black British groups now both have rates of access to services that are over 40 per cent higher than for the majority White group (at approximately 3,800 per 100,000 population compared with about 2,700 for the White group).
  • The number of people who spent time in a mental health hospital rose by 5.1 per cent - the first increase in five years.
  • This rise was due to a 30.1* per cent rise in the number of people being compulsorily detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act, from 32,649 in 2008/9 to 42,479 in 2009/10.
  • The average number of days spent in hospital during the year per patient was 68 days for women and 78 days for men.

* Please note: Some part of this increase was due to improved recording between 2008/09 and 2009/10, because a small number of trusts failed to provide MHA information in 2008/09. On a like for like basis, excluding the data for trusts that failed to return information in 2008/09, there was an estimated increase of about 17.5 per cent in the number of people being detained under the MHA - from 32,649 to 38,369. Further information on data quality can be found in the Data Quality and Methodology document that accompanies each annual release.

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