Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance November 2024
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Issue with Gender Breakdowns in Rates Measures
An issue has been identified with the Gender breakdowns in MHS81a, MHS84a, MHS116a, OAP05, OAP05a, OAP06, OAP06a, OAP07 and OAP07a. These breakdowns have been removed from the main and OAPs publication files and the files given a _v2 suffix. These breakdowns will be republished as part of the end of year processing.
28 January 2025 15:00 PM
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'.
Some amendments to methodologies have been made in this publication. Previously, in some metrics, data for Kooth Digital Health Limited was handled in a different way due to them providing online anonymous services. This methodology has been extended to a second provider, MeeToo Education. Additionally, there have been some amendments to the referral spells methodology (metrics starting MRS). These include extending the list of teams in the exclusion and inclusion lists to include depreciated codes and introducing the use of the referral rejection and closure dates where the service discharge date is not available.
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
The 24/25 data in the monthly time-series file to be issued for the November-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' 2024-25 data.
Mental Health publications consultation
The consultation on the future of Mental Health reporting has now closed. This consultation covered the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, the Mental Health Bulletin and the Mental Health Act, Annual Figures publications.
If you have any further views that you would like to discuss, 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.
Key Facts
Key Facts Based on 'End of Year Final' data
- At the end of November, there were 2.01 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of November; the majority of these (1.32 million) were in contact with adult mental health services.
- There were 493,617 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 290,188 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 463,061 new referrals were received into services during November, and 2.29 million care contacts were attended.
- 22,663 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of November, including 16,549 people detained in hospital.
Key Facts Based on 'Performance' data (superseded by 'End of Year Final' statistics)
- At the end of November, there were 1.97 million people in contact with services; the majority of these (1.33 million) were in adult mental health services.
- There were 466,203 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 286,911 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 450,180 new referrals were received into services during November, and 2.29 million care contacts were attended.
- 22,611 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of November, including 16,488 people detained in hospital.
This is the eigth 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.
Resources
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