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
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
2.00 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of December
The majority of these (1.36 million) were in contact with adult mental health services
486,476 people were in contact with children and young people’s mental health services, at the end of December
286,809 people were in contact with learning disabilities and autism services, at the end of December
407,255 new referrals were received, and 2.02 million care contacts were attended, during December
22,740 people were subject to the Mental Health Act, including 16,558 people detained in hospital, at the end of December
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
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