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Publication, Part of

Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services, April 2023

Official statistics

Out of Area Placements (OAPs) - April 2023 - Report Table 10

Please note that there was an issue with Table 10 of the pdf report which accompanied this publication. The data shown in the table had the wrong column labels. The table has been corrected and the pdf has been reissued.

2 August 2023 12:00 PM

Summary

This report presents findings from the Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services April 2023 collection. The collection is expected to capture the details of all Out of Area Placements in England from both NHS and independent providers. NHS England is running this interim data collection in the Clinical Audit Platform (CAP) until the data becomes aligned and available from the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS). The MHSDS is the chosen mechanism for the long term collection of this data.


Highlights

Participation

This monthly report of Out of Area Placements should be interpreted with caution, as with the previous reports in this series. The limitations section sets out these issues more fully.

This month 43 organisations have participated in this collection, out of the 57 organisations in scope. This means that 75 percent of organisations have participated. The definition of participation can be found on page 5 of the report.


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