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Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance February 2025

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Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance February 2025


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

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Key Facts

2.05 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of February

The majority of these (1.37 million) were in contact with adult mental health services

512,612 people were in contact with children and young people’s mental health services, at the end of February

296,776 people were in contact with learning disabilities and autism services, at the end of February

435,821 new referrals were recieved, and 2.15 million care contacts were attended, during February

22,811 people were subject to the Mental Health Act, including 16,563 people detained in hospital, at the end of February

Mental Health Services Time Series Dashboard

The Mental Health Services Time Series Dashboard provides time series data for a number of key metrics within the publication with data dating back to April 2016. The dashboard also presents visuals for the demographic breakdowns alongside a small number of metrics shown at CCG / Sub ICB level.

The underlying data has also been made available in CSV format.  Please refer to 'MHSDS Monthly: Time Series Data for Selected MHSDS Measures, April 2016 to Performance January 2025 CSV' available under 'Resources'.

This tool is in Microsoft Power BI which does not fully support all accessibility needs. If you need further assistance, please contact us for help.

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: 10 April 2025 12:06 pm