Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance April, Provisional May 2023

The 'Commissioning Region', 'ICB - GP Practice or Residence' and 'Sub ICB - GP Practice or Residence' breakdowns within metrics EIP68, EIP69a and EIP69b, released on 13th July, have since been found to be incorrect.  This data has now been reissued within the Performance April data and omitted from the Provisional May data.

The reissued Performance data is available within the 'MHSDS Monthly: Performance April 2023 MHSDS Data File V3' CSV file below.

The corresponding Provisional data has also been reissued as 'MHSDS Monthly: Provisional May 2023 MHSDS Data File V3'.  However, data for metrics EIP68, EIP69a and EIP69b have simply been omitted from this file altogether.  Users should now refer to the Performance May 2023 MHSDS Data file available here to obtain May data for these metrics.

NHS England apologises for any inconvenience caused.

The MHS91 data released on 13th July was produced using a previous methodology. This data has now been re-released on the basis of the current methodology.

The methodological change has resulted in a small decrease in measure values.  Invalid Gender Identity Codes previously defaulted to 'Person Stated' Gender.  This no longer happens under the current methodology.

The re-released data is available within the 'MHSDS Monthly: Performance April 2023 MHSDS Data File V2', 'MHSDS Monthly: Provisional May 2023 MHSDS Data File v2' and 'MHSDS Monthly: Time Series Data for Selected MHSDS Measures, April 2016 to Performance April 2023 CSV V2' CSV files.

The Mental Health Services Time Series Dashboard has also been refreshed with the revised MHS91 data.

A note was added to all monthly publications from Performance August 2022 to Performance March 2023 inclusive, informing users that the  ‘Official Statistics’ designation did not apply to those editions, as a cyber incident had substantially impacted the ability of 13 mental health service providers to submit data.

As of this publication (Performance April 2023), the impact of the cyber incident has substantially diminished.  As a result, the ‘Official Statistics’ designation has now been been reinstated.

The Data Quality chapter provides an assessment of the quality of the statistical output of the MHSDS Monthly publication series.  This is set out in reference to the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

NHS England have uncovered an issue with the DQ VODIM files associated with this publication. The metrics impacted are DQM57 to DQM62. For these metrics, valid values were incorrectly identified as Invalid.

These values have not been removed or updated but should be disregarded by users when using the VODIM files.