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Mental Health of Children and Young People (MHCYP)

This survey series provides England’s best source of data on trends in child mental health. The latest survey, conducted in 2017, with a 3 year follow up survey in July 2020, is now available to request from DARS. To find out more about the methods of accessing this data set, visit our DARS population health surveys page.

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Data set versions as presented in the DARS online system

Mental Health of Children and Young People (MHCYP)

Access method

Extract only

Data set available in packages

Packages are pre-defined groups of fields and or tables that allow a customer to select from a list that best meets their needs. Packages do not allow a customer to customise their field or table selection.

  • No

Access method

Extract only 

Period of data coverage

01/01/2017 ongoing

Geographical scope of data

England

Linkable to other data sets

  • No

Data collection process

Submitted by: Parents and carers

Collected by: NatCen Social Research

Frequency: When commissioned

Clinical coding systems

Does the data set include any standardised systems of coding?

  • ICD10 (International Classification of Diseases classifies diseases and other health conditions.)
Full list of coding systems considered

SNOMED-CT (a structured clinical vocabulary for use in electronic health records.)

ICD  (International Classification of Diseases classifies diseases and other health conditions.)

OPCS-4  (Office of Population Census and Surveys classification of interventions and surgical procedures)

dm+d  (Dictionary of descriptions and codes which represent medicines and devices in use across the NHS.)

NICIP (National Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure provides consistent recording of imaging procedures.)

UCUM  (Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) is a code system intended to include all units of measurement.)

TFCs (Treatment Function Codes are used to record treatment activities undertaken)

Read Code v2  (A coded thesaurus of clinical terms.)

Read Code Clinical Terms v3 (A coded thesaurus of clinical terms.)

UICC (Union for International Cancer Control classification of cancer by anatomic disease extent.)

IMD  (Indices of Multiple Deprivation measures relative poverty.)

Derived fields

Standardised formulation may be applied across multiple data sets to generate commonly derived fields.  Any standard derivations applicable to this data set are listed below. Please note that this does not include bespoke derivations created specifically for the individual data set.

  • None 
Full list of standard derivations considered

GP_PRACTICE_CODE_TRACED (The GP practice that the patient is registered at, as found when traced against the Person Demographic Service (PDS).)

CCG_OF_RESIDENCE (Clinical Commissioning Group covering the area in which the patient’s postcode falls where data relates to pre 1 July 2022. Otherwise ICB Sub Location.)

ICS_OF_RESIDENCE (The Integrated Care System covering the area in which the patient’s postcode falls. This will be null for any data relating to earlier than 1 July 2022.)

LA_OF_RESIDENCE (The Local Authority covering the area in which the patient’s postcode falls.)

LSOA_OF_RESIDENCE (The Lower Super Output Area (lowest level without being disclosive) covering the area in which the patient’s postcode falls.)

CCG_OF_REGISTRATION (Clinical Commissioning Group which has a commissioning relationship with the GP practice which the patient is registered at where data relates to pre 1 July 2022. Otherwise ICB Sub Location.)

ICS_OF_REGISTRATION (The Integrated Care System covering the area in which the patient’s GP practice falls. This will be null until for any data relating to earlier than 1 July 2022.)

LA_OF_REGISTRATION (The Local Authority covering the area in which the patient’s GP practice falls.)

LSOA_OF_REGISTRATION (The Lower Super Output Area (lowest level without being disclosive) covering the area in which the patient’s GP practice falls.)

Third party licensing

Does the data set require copyrighted clinical assessment tools or outcome measures that require a licence?

  • None 

Advice and support

Governance of this data set is provided by:

Owning organisation: Department of Health and Social Care

Data Controller: NHS England

Data Processor: NHS England and National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)

NHS England provides a variety of functions for the data sets we make available.  Therefore, our knowledge and understanding of the data will vary, impacting the level of advice and support we can provide.

In relation to this data set, we undertake partial management on behalf of the funding organisation. We may be able to offer some guidance but in this instance full advice and support is provided by the organisation which carries out the survey on our behalf, NatCen.

Supporting documentation and guidance

ARTICLE

National Study of Health and Wellbeing: Children and Young People

This survey aims to follow up parents, children and young people that took part in the 2017 survey. It will cover around 7,800 children and young people living in private households in England who gave their consent in the 2017 survey to be re-contacted.
ARTICLE

Population health surveys

Information on how to access NHS England’s public health survey datasets for secondary research.

Last edited: 11 June 2024 11:07 am