Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance March 2025
Official statistics
Please note that the Access and Waiting times reference tables originally published as part of this publication were released as a CSV file instead of a formatted Excel file This has been rectified and the Excel file is now available.
2 July 2025 07:30 AM
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
- Quarterly 'Mental Health Services Selected NHS England Measures' csv
The 24/25 data in the monthly time-series file to be issued for the March-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 March, there were 2.14 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of March; the majority of these (1.44 million) were in contact with adult mental health services.
- There were 507,825 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 296,970 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 485,311 new referrals were received into services during March, and 2.31 million care contacts were attended.
- 22,973 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of March, including 16,664 people detained in hospital.
Key Facts Based on 'Performance' data (superseded by 'End of Year Final' statistics)
- At the end of March, there were 2.06 million people in contact with services; the majority of these (1.37 million) were in adult mental health services.
- There were 503,422 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 296,098 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 472,563 new referrals were received into services during March, and 2.26 million care contacts were attended.
- 22,662 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of March, including 16,513 people detained in hospital.
Resources
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