Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics , Performance August, Provisional September 2023
Official statistics
Error affecting MHS27a data
An error affecting the MHS27a data originally published on 14th September has been identified. The error impacted only the 'Sub ICB - GP Practice or Residence; Bed Type' breakdown.
This has now been resolved. Version 2 of the 'MHSDS Monthly: Performance June 2023' and 'MHSDS Monthly: Provisional July 2023' CSV files each contain revised MHS27a data, and are available under 'Resources' below.
NHS England apologies for any inconvenience caused.
14 November 2023 10:16 AM
Revised Out of Area Placements (OAPS) CSV files
A minor duplication issue has been identified affecting the 'MHSDS Monthly: Performance August 2023 Out of Area Placements' and 'MHSDS Monthly: Provisional September 2023 Out of Area Placements' CSV files originally published on 9th November 2023.
This has now been resolved and the corresponding version 2 of both files are available under 'Resource' below.
NHS England apologies for any inconvenience caused.
14 November 2023 10:16 AM
Issue with DQ VODIM Metrics DQM57 to DQM62
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.
12 December 2023 09:30 AM
Summary
This publication provides the timeliest picture available of people using NHS funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services in England, excluding those who are solely in contact with Talking Therapies. This information will be of use to people needing access to information quickly for operational decision making and other purposes. More detailed information on the quality and completeness of these statistics is available in the Data Quality section, as well as within the Data Coverage and Data Quality VODIM and Integrity files available under 'Resources'.
Highlights
Release of 'End of Year Final' 2023-24 data
'End of Year Final' versions of the main monthly csv files for each month between April 2023 and March 2024, collected under MHSDS version 5, which reflect revised 2023-24 Multiple Submission Window Model submissions that occurred after 'Performance' monthly data had already been published are now available.
The following files will be re-issued using end-of-year 'final' data
- Monthly 'Main' csv
- Monthly 'Restrictive Interventions' csv
- Monthly 'Out of Area Placements' csv
- Monthly 'Mental Health Services Measures to support the Adult Social Care Outcome Framework' csv
- Quarterly 'Mental Health Services Selected NHS England Measures' csv
The 23/24 data in the monthly time-series file to be issued for the April-24 reporting period will be based on final, end-of-year data.
Please refer to the relevant monthly publication pages available from the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics series page for further details and to access the 'End of Year Final' 2023-24 data.
New metrics
As part of the Performance August 2023 publication, 12 new metrics have been added. Metrics MHS124 to MHS129 relate to longest waits for adults, whilst metrics MHS130 to MHS135 relate to longest waits for children and young people.
Full details are available in the Metadata file and Mental Health Services publication list.
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.
From December each publication page will contain data relating to one month only. On December 14th 2023, September 2023 performance and October 2023 performance publications will be published. The September 2023 performance will contain all data relating to the reporting period in it.
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 11th 2024. On this day we will also publish November 2023 data, again omitting the restraints data initially with it being added in February 2024.
Consultation regarding removing metrics MHS92, MHS93 and MHS94
Following the release of the new CYP Outcomes metrics in the April 2023 Performance publication, NHS England are consulting users of these statistics to see if it is appropriate to remove the metrics MHS92 to MHS94. These metrics relate to people with a paired score whose referral has been open for at least 14 days. The new metrics remove the stipulation for the referral to be open for at least 14 days and as such it has been felt that these metrics are no longer needed. If users still use these metrics, please let us know via the Survey link on this page.
Access the code used to create this report
The code used to create the outputs for this report is available on our NHS Digital GitHub webpage.
Key Facts
Key Facts Based on 'End of Year Final' data
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At the end of August, there were 1,810,147 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,179,019) were in adult mental health services.
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There were 435,307 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 259,330 in learning disabilities and autism services.
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402,148 new referrals were received into services during August and 2,020,725 care contacts were attended.
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21,994 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of August, including 16,611 people detained in hospital.
Key Facts Based on 'Performance' data (superseded by 'End of Year Final' statistics)
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At the end of August, there were 1,760,623 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,153,225) were in adult mental health services.
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There were 414,550 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 252,361 in learning disabilities and autism services.
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386,157 new referrals were received into services during August and 1,972,050 care contacts were attended.
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21,620 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of August, including 16,450 people detained in hospital.
This is the twenty-third monthly release using data collected under MHSDS version 5. Please refer to the January 2022 publication for an outline of the changes to the dataset introduced by the move to MHSDS version 5. Full details of the changes to the dataset are available in the Technical Output Specification and the updated constructions for all measures in this publication are available in the metadata file.
Resources
Last edited: 6 June 2024 2:21 pm