Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance February 2025
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
The 24/25 data in the monthly time-series file to be issued for the February-25 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.
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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
- At the end of February, there were 2.12 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of February; the majority of these (1.41 million) were in contact with adult mental health services.
- There were 515,687 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 299,257 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 444,226 new referrals were received into services during February, and 2.16 million care contacts were attended.
- 22,836 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of February, including 16,595 people detained in hospital.
Key Facts Based on 'Performance' data (superseded by 'End of Year Final' statistics)
- At the end of February, there were 2.05 million people in contact with services; the majority of these (1.37 million) were in adult mental health services.
- There were 512,612 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 296,776 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 435,821 new referrals were received into services during February, and 2.15 million care contacts were attended.
- 22,811 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of February, including 16,563 people detained in hospital.
This is the eleventh 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.
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Last edited: 26 August 2025 1:55 pm