Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance May, Provisional June 2022
Official statistics
Error affecting single breakdown within the Performance May 2022 Restrictive Interventions CSV file
An error has been identified in the data contained within the ‘England; Restrictive Intervention Type; Age Group; Upper Ethnicity’ breakdown of the MHSDS Monthly: Performance May 2022 Restrictive Interventions CSV file. This resulted in incorrect figures being shown for measures MHS76 and MHS96, and it also caused the omission of figures for MHS77.
The error has now been rectified and corrected figures are available within the MHSDS Monthly: Performance May 2022 Restrictive Interventions V2 CSV file.
NHS Digital apologises for any inconvenience.
5 September 2022 09:30 AM
Error affecting sub-national breakdowns of measures MHS107a and MHS107b within the Performance May 2022 MHSDS Data CSV file
An error has been identified in the sub-national breakdowns contained with measures MHS107a and MHS107b of the MHSDS Monthly: Performance May 2022 MHSDS Data CSV file. This resulted in some incorrect figures being shown within each of the sub-national breakdowns. National level figures were unaffected.
The error has now been rectified and corrected figures are available within the MHSDS Monthly: Performance May 2022 MHSDS Data V2 CSV file
NHS Digital apologises for any inconvenience.
5 September 2022 09:30 AM
MHSDS version change
This is the 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.
11 August 2022 09:30 AM
Methodological improvement for MHS29d and MHS30f
From Performance May 2022 onwards, the methodology for each of the following measures:
- MHS29d - Contacts in the RP with community mental health services for adult and older adults with severe mental illness
- MHS30f - Attended contacts in the RP with community mental health services for adult and older adults with severe mental illness
has been improved to align with other care contact measures for consistency.
At national level, the change in methodology results in a 3.1% decrease for MHS29d and a 3.2% decrease for MHS30f.
11 August 2022 09:30 AM
Issue with DQ VODIM Metrics DQM57 to DQM62
NHS England have uncovered an issue with the DQ VODIM files associated with this publication. The metrics impacted are DQM57 to DQM62. For these metrics, valid values were incorrectly identified as Invalid.
These values have not been removed or updated but should be disregarded by users when using the VODIM files.
12 December 2023 09:30 AM
Summary
This publication provides the timeliest picture available of people using NHS funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services in England. These are experimental statistics which are undergoing development and evaluation. 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 made available later in our Mental Health Bulletin: Annual Report publication series.
Highlights
Release of 'End of Year Final' 2022-23 data
'End of Year Final' versions of the main monthly csv files for each month between April 2022 and March 2023, collected under MHSDS version 5, which reflect revised 2022-23 Multiple Submission Window Model submissions that occurred after 'Performance' monthly data had already been published are now available. These csvs include a complete set of breakdowns, including the national level data that was omitted from the corresponding performance csv released at the time for each month between August 2022 and March 2023.
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' 2022-23 data.
COVID-19 and the production of statistics
Due to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) disruption, the quality and coverage of some of our statistics has been affected, for example by an increase in non-submissions for some datasets. We are also seeing some different patterns in the submitted data. For example, fewer patients are being referred to hospital and more appointments being carried out via phone/telemedicine/email. Therefore, data should be interpreted with care over the COVID-19 period.
Updates to measures
- From Performance May 2022 onwards, the following new measure relating to care contacts has been added to the monthly release:
MHS109 - Number of People aged 18 to 24 supported through NHS funded mental health with at least one contact (12 month rolling)
- Several new breakdowns for selected existing care contact measures have been made available within the MHSDS Monthly: Performance May 2022 MHSDS CSV file.
- New breakdowns have also been made available within the MHSDS Monthly: Performance May 2022 Restrictive Interventions CSV file.
- Further details of these updates are available in the Notes on measures page as well as in the the Metadata file and Mental Health Services publication list.
Key Facts
Key Facts Based on 'End of Year Final' data
- At the end of May, there were 1,612,995 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,069,133) were in adult mental health services.
- There were 398,920 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 192,882 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 425,084 new referrals were received into services during May and 2,099,087 care contacts were attended.
- 21,726 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of May, including 16,416 people detained in hospital.
Key Facts Based on 'Performance' data (superseded by 'End of Year Final' statistics)
- At the end of May, there were 1,622,430 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,064,083) were in adult mental health services.
- There were 405,852 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 200,789 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 419,631 new referrals were received into services during May and 2,071,109 care contacts were attended.
- 21,456 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of May, including 16,508 people detained in hospital.
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