Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics , Performance December 2023
Official statistics
Revision of MHS116a data
An error affecting the MHS116a data originally published on 8th February 2024 has been identified. The error impacted only the ‘England; Age' breakdown.
This has now been resolved. Version 2 of the 'MHSDS Monthly: Performance December 2023' file contains revised MHS116a data, an is available under 'Resources' below.
NHS England apologies for any inconvenience caused.
14 March 2024 09:30 AM
Revision of MHS30h data
An error has been identified in the MHS30h data issued between Performance December 2021 and Performance November 2023. The error was caused by an incorrectly applied filter which limited the counts to just those referral IDs having a match in the MHS102ServiceTypeReferredTo Table. This issue has been fixed for this month's publication and as such will be resolved going forwards.
At national level, the impact is minimal. As such, NHS England does not intend to reissue revised data for historic reporting periods. User should, however, be aware that at sub national level, the impact may be more substantial in some cases.
NHS England apologises for any inconvenience caused.
8 February 2024 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.
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 onwards, revised submission windows have been introduced to support a move to reporting performance data in the month following activity. Each publication page now contains data relating to one month only.
This December 2023 performance publication contains all data relating to the reporting period in it, with the exception of restraints (a monthly output) and perinatal (a quarterly output) data. This is because these data are being published in the second month following the activity. Providers have indicated that there is often some delay until the restraints and perinatal data is available for them to submit. As a result, the timeliness with which NHS England receives restraints and perinatal data does not currently support 'first cut' reporting, although it may do in the future should timeliness improve.
We will ensure December 2023 performance restraints and perinatal data is added to this page in March 2024 once 'second cut' data is available.
As of 8th February 2024, ‘second cut’ restraints data for November 2023 performance has been added to the November 2023 performance publication page.
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 December, there were 1,877,410 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,206,835) were in adult mental health services.
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There were 463,069 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 271,915 in learning disabilities and autism services.
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382,587 new referrals were received into services during December and 1,803,559 care contacts were attended.
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21,888 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of December, including 16,439 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 December, there were 1,866,880 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,206,919) were in adult mental health services.
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There were 452,725 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 270,268 in learning disabilities and autism services.
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380,993 new referrals were received into services during December and 1,770,624 care contacts were attended.
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22,250 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of December, including 16,776 people detained in hospital.
This is the twenty-seventh 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: 7 June 2024 9:55 am