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Monthly Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS) Reports, England - March 2014 summary statistics and related information

Official statistics, Other reports and statistics
Publication Date:
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Country, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Mental Health Trusts
Date Range:
01 Mar 2014 to 30 Apr 2014

Summary

This statistical release makes available the most recent Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS) final monthly data (March 2014). This publication series replaces the Routine Quarterly MHMDS Reports, last published for the period Q4 2012-13, reflecting the change in the frequency of submissions. Further information about these changes and format of the monthly release can be found through the Resource links.

 

This information will be of particular interest to organisations involved in delivering secondary mental health care for adults, as it presents timely information to support discussions between providers and commissioners of services. For patients, researchers , agencies and the wider public it aims to provide up to date information about the numbers of people using services, spending time in psychiatric hospitals and subject to the Mental Health Act (MHA). Some of these measures are currently experimental analysis.

 

Further analysis to support currency and payment in adult mental health services will be added to the release for April 2014 and changes to the content of the current monthly release are described in the Methodological Change paper referenced below.

 

IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE:

 

Following publication of this release, on 23rd June 2014 an issue was identified with the data consistency lines DCM1-DCM6 in the March 2014 Final Data Quality Measures spreadsheet. Whilst these measures should be based on final data for each provider (using the refresh submission or the primary if there was none), it was actually based on both types of submission. 

 

A corrected version of the March 2014 Final Data Quality Measures spreadsheet has been issued and we apologise for any inconvenience caused. 

Highlights

This release of data shows that at the end of March 2014:

  • 960,194 people were in contact with secondary mental health services and of these 23,246 were inpatients in a psychiatric hospital (2.4 per cent).
  • 15,863 people were subject to the Mental Health Act 1983 and of these 11,399 were detained in hospital (71.9 per cent) and 4,298 were subject to a CTO (27.1 per cent).
  • 59.4 per cent of people aged 18-69, who were being treated under the Care Programme Approach, were recorded as being in settled accommodation, while 6.8% were recorded as being employed.

During March 2014:

  • 61,070 new spells of care began.

  • There were 9,706 new admissions to hospital.

  • Of those who were discharged from hospital during the month, 76.9 per cent received a follow up within 7 days from the same provider. This is an important suicide prevention measure.

Between April 2013 and the end of March 2014:

  • 1,746,698 people have had contact with adult secondary mental health services and of these 105,270 (6.0 per cent) had spent at least one night as an inpatient in a psychiatric hospital.
  • 43 people who spent at least one night as an inpatient in a psychiatric hospital were under 16 at the end of March 2014.
  • 357,732 (20.5 per cent) people spent time on CPA.
  • There were 121,499 admissions to psychiatric hospital and 116,988 discharges.

Further analysis of annual data for 2014-15 will be published in the Mental Health Bulletin in November 2014. 

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Last edited: 11 April 2018 4:30 pm