Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance October 2023
Official statistics
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.
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, revised submission windows have been introduced to support a move to reporting performance data in the month following activity. Editions of the series from this one onwards are affected by this change, and each publication page will contain data relating to one month only.
The September 2023 performance publication contains all data relating to the reporting period in it.
The October 2023 performance publication does likewise with the exception of restraints data. This is because the restraints data is 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 does not currently support 'first cut' reporting, although it may do in the future should timeliness improve.
The October 2023 publication will have ‘second cut’ restraints data added to it on 11th January 2024. We will also publish November 2023 data on this day, again omitting the ‘first cut’ restraints data (assuming timeliness is still an issue), ensuring it is added in February 2024 once 'second cut' restraints data is available.
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.
Update to DQ VODIM Metrics DQM57 to DQM62
An issue was discovered with the VODIM metrics DQM57 to DQM62. This issue meant that records which should have been displayed as Valid were being incorrectly assigned as Invalid. The methodology has been updated and as of Performance September 2023 onwards is now correct. Previous versions of these VODIM measures dating between March 2022 and August 2023 should be disregarded.
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 (Head Section)
Key Facts Based on 'End of Year Final' data
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At the end of October, there were 1,852,055 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,204,180) were in adult mental health services.
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There were 447,042 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 266,012 in learning disabilities and autism services.
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451,900 new referrals were received into services during October and 2,160,875 care contacts were attended.
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21,944 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of October, including 16,470 people detained in hospital.
Key Facts Based on 'Performance' data (superseded by 'End of Year Final' statistics)
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At the end of October, there were 1,830,728 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,191,573) were in adult mental health services.
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There were 438,002 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 261,352 in learning disabilities and autism services.
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438,586 new referrals were received into services during October and 2,085,936 care contacts were attended.
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21,887 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of October, including 16,489 people detained in hospital.
This is the twenty-fifth 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.
Resources
Last edited: 7 June 2024 9:09 am