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Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics , Performance January 2024

Official statistics

Publication Date:
14 Mar 2024
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Clinical Commissioning Groups, Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs), Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Provider, Mental Health Trusts, Regions, Ambulance Trusts, NHS Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Regions, Country
Date Range:
01 Feb 2023 to 31 Jan 2024

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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.

New metrics

As part of the Performance January 2024 publication, 6 new metrics have been added - all relating to mean and median length of stay of patients discharged from hospital. MHS140a and MHS140b relate to patients aged 18 to 64, MHS141a and MHS141b relate to patients aged 65 and over and MHS142a and MHS142b relate to patients aged 0 to 17.

Full details are available in the Metadata file and Mental Health Services publication list.

Closing of the Clinical Audit Platform collection of Out of Area Placements

The CAP collection of Out Of Area Placements (OAPs) will cease following the collection March 2024 activity. Reporting of OAPs activity from April 2024 will be done using MHSDS data only. Data relating to OAPs from MHSDS can be found in the relevant CSV file in this publication.

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 January 2024 performance publication contains all data relating to the reporting period in it, with the exception of restraints (a monthly 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 data is available for them to submit.  As a result, the timeliness with which NHS England receives restraints data does not currently support 'first cut' reporting, although it may do in the future should timeliness improve.

We will ensure January 2024 performance restraints data is added to this page in April 2024 once 'second cut' data is available.

As of 14th March 2024, ‘second cut’ restraints data for December 2023 performance has been added to the December 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.

Click here to access the code

Key Facts

Key Facts Based on 'End of Year Final' data

  • At the end of January, there were 1,901,885 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,221,621) were in adult mental health services.

  • There were 471,536 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 275,252 in learning disabilities and autism services.

  • 451,944 new referrals were received into services during January and 2,253,449 care contacts were attended.

  • 21,753 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of January, including 16,218 people detained in hospital.

Key Facts Based on 'Performance' data (superseded by 'End of Year Final' statistics)

  • At the end of January, there were 1,885,217 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,227,521) were in adult mental health services.

  • There were 460,208 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 259,485 in learning disabilities and autism services.

  • 444,131 new referrals were received into services during January and 2,183,641 care contacts were attended.

  • 22,057 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of January, including 16,569 people detained in hospital.

Mental Health Services Time Series Dashboard

Open the interactive 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 2024 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 twenty-eighth 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.

Last edited: 7 June 2024 10:37 am