Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance September 2024
Official statistics
Issue with access metrics
An issue was identified with the sub national geographies present in the initial published files in the 4 access metrics (MHS91, MHS95, MHS108 and MHS109). This issue meant that data at sub national commissioning geographies were an undercount. Data for the four metrics has been revised using the cut of latest data available which was cut at the end of October 2024.
The data for the four metrics has been replaced in the main and time-series files and where this has occurred the status will reflect "Adhoc" rather than "Performance".
Please note that in the September-24 publication, only the Apr-24 to Aug-24 values in the time-series file were affected.
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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
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 September-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.
Changing the submission windows for the Mental Health Services Data
This September 2024 performance publication contains all data relating to the reporting period in it, with the exception of perinatal quarterly and restraints data. This is because these reports are still 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 data does not currently support 'first cut' reporting, although it may do in the future should timeliness improve.
As the maternity services dataset continues to use two windows for performance reporting, the perinatal quarterly files are based on second-window reporting in MHSDS also.
Performance reporting for perinatal quarterly and restraints was added to this page for September 2024 on December 12th.
Amendment to Access metrics
An issue has been identified and fixed with the Access metrics present within this publication. This issue had meant that previous figures for sub national commissioning geographies were an undercount. This issue only covers data published in 2024-25 and previous publications will be amended and updated in due course. A note will be added to each individual publication to reflect the update once completed.
Mental Health publications consultation
NHS England are consulting on the future of Mental Health reporting. This consultation covers the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, the Mental Health Bulletin and the Mental Health Act, Annual Figures publications.
The consultation is designed to help make decisions about future reporting and to ensure that the data provided is as useful as possible. The survey link further down this this page (or here) is available for users to provide feedback directly.
If you would like to discuss your views in more detail with us, please email [email protected] including "Mental Health Publications consultation" 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.
New Measures
As part of the Performance September 2024 publication, the following has been added -
- New "Upper Ethnicity" breakdowns for MHS106, MHS106a, MHS107 and MHS107a
- A new measure evaluating the recording of presenting complaints (MHS148). Further guidance on the recording of presenting complaint will be made available in due course.
Full details are available in the Metadata file and Mental Health Services publication list.
Key Facts
Key Facts Based on 'End of Year Final' data
- At the end of September, there were 1.98 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of September; the majority of these (1.32 million) were in contact with adult mental health services.
- There were 465,482 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 289,128 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 440,197 new referrals were received into services during September, and 2.16 million care contacts were attended.
- 22,563 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of September, including 16,522 people detained in hospital.
Key Facts Based on 'Performance' data (superseded by 'End of Year Final' statistics)
- At the end of September, there were 1.98 million people in contact with services; the majority of these (1.36 million) were in adult mental health services.
- There were 457,449 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 289,306 in learning disabilities and autism services.
- 432,659 new referrals were received into services during September, and 2.16 million care contacts were attended.
- 22,868 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of September, including 16,699 people detained in hospital.
This is the sixth 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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