Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance December 2024
Official statistics
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' 2024-25 data
'End of Year Final' versions of the main monthly csv files for each month between April 2024 and March 2025, collected under MHSDS version 6, which reflect revised 2024-25 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
- Monthly 'Referral Spells' csv
- Monthly 'Access and Waiting Times Reference Tables' csv
- Monthly 'Adult Social Care Outcome Framework' csv
- Monthly 'Time series' csv
- Monthly 'Time Series for Out of Area Placements' csv
- Quarterly 'Mental Health Services Selected NHS England Measures' csv
The 24/25 data in the monthly time-series file to be issued for the December-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' 2024-25 data.
Mental Health publications consultation
The consultation on the future of Mental Health reporting has now closed. This consultation covered the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, the Mental Health Bulletin and the Mental Health Act, Annual Figures publications.
If you have any further views that you would like to discuss, please email [email protected] including "Mental Health Publications feedback" 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 Digital GitHub webpage.
New Upper Ethnicity Breakdowns
As part of this publication, an "Upper Ethnicity" breakdown has been added to
- All measures in the 'Out of Area' placements file
- MHS91 in the 'main' publication file
Key Facts
Key Facts Based on 'End of Year Final' data
- At the end of December, there were 2.01 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of December; the majority of these (1.33 million) were in contact with adult mental health services.
- There were 494,108 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 293,331 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 415,047 new referrals were received into services during December, and 2.01 million care contacts were attended.
- 22,680 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of December, including 16,511 people detained in hospital.
Key Facts Based on 'Performance' data (superseded by 'End of Year Final' statistics)
- At the end of December, there were 2.00 million people in contact with services; the majority of these (1.36 million) were in adult mental health services.
- There were 486,476 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 286,809 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 407,255 new referrals were received into services during December, and 2.02 million care contacts were attended.
- 22,740 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of December, including 16,558 people detained in hospital.
This is the ninth monthly release using data collected under MHSDS version 6. Please refer to the April 2024 publication for an outline of the changes to the dataset introduced by the move to MHSDS version 6. 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: 26 August 2025 1:56 pm