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Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance July 2025

Official statistics

Publication Date:
11 Sep 2025
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 Aug 2024 to 31 Jul 2025

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Notes on Measures

Publication Consultation

As part of ongoing work to review current reporting via the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics and the annual Mental Health Bulletin publication series, a number of potential changes have been identified.  The overarching objective of this review is to streamline and consolidate MHSDS metrics, publications and dashboards.  In doing so, we are aiming to strike the right balance between the views and needs of users of the data and the business requirement to move to a more sustainable publication schedule that matches our analytical capacity, while providing key information covered by the Bulletin, such as equality, in a form and frequency that better meets the needs of the system. 

The consultation on the future of the monthly statistics publication can be found here:  https://forms.office.com/e/YW4Q9ka8q9   

There is a separate consultation on the retirement of the annual Bulletin which you can find here: https://forms.office.com/e/TSS0cgNSjK

These consultations close at 23:59 on Sunday 12th October 2025.   

11 September 2025 09:30 AM

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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

Additions to the publication

As part of this July release, a number of new metrics and breakdowns have been added to the publication. These broadly include:

  • Additional Mental Health Act reporting. This reporting includes additional metrics and breakdowns. As part of the MHA annual publication (released on 18 September 2025), an enhanced dashboard will be released which will include monthly data.
  • Reporting using the LD and Autism status fields. Reporting uses these fields for 4 key metrics (People in contact with services, Contacts, New Referrals and people with an open hospital spell), OAPs and MHA reporting. Caution should be taken when interpreting this data initially given the field was only introduced as part of version 6 of the dataset in April 2024 and has not previously been used until now.
  • Additional metrics relating to CYP Access. This includes the addition of crude and standardised rates and comparisons between groups for ethnicity and deprivation to support health inequalities reporting at Region and ICB level.
  • Minor amendments to some of the VODIM metrics. These changes have been made to better reflect guidance and reporting practices. Only Experimental DQMI scores maybe impacted by this change. 

Full details of the new metrics and the breakdowns included can be found in the Metadata file.

Contact Us

If you have any views or feedback that you would like to discuss with us, 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.

Click here to access the code

Key Facts

2.15 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of July

The majority of these (1.45 million) were in contact with adult mental health services

501,280 people were in contact with children and young people’s mental health services, at the end of July

300,387 people were in contact with learning disabilities and autism services, at the end of July

499,834 new referrals were recieved, and 2.54 million care contacts were attended, during July

23,315 people were subject to the Mental Health Act, including 16,750 people detained in hospital, at the end of July

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 July 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.

Last edited: 10 September 2025 12:08 pm