Please note: This is the last publication of Monthly MHLDS Reports.
On 31 March 2016 we will publish the first release of the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics from the new version of the data set (MHSDS). There is no refresh MHLDDS submission for December as this would coincide with the first submission MHSDS for January 2016 data and there will not be a release of December 2015 Final data. A monthly data file and an executive summary based on provisional December 2015 are included in this release to give the latest possible information from MHLDDS. Users of the provisional monthly data file for December should note that two measures in this file could not be produced from provisional data and these missing items have been replaced with $ symbol. A Methodological Change paper with more detail about the changes to this publication can be found below.
This statistical release makes available the most recent Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Dataset (MHLDDS) final monthly data (November 2015). This publication presents a wide range of information about care delivered to users of NHS funded secondary mental health and learning disability services in England.
The scope of the Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) was extended to cover Learning Disability services from September 2014. Many people who have a learning disability use mental health services and people in learning disability services may have a mental health problem. This means that activity included in the new MHLDDS dataset cannot be distinctly divided into mental health or learning disability spells of care - a single spell of care may include inputs from either of both types of service.
The Currencies and Payment file that forms part of this release is specifically limited to services in scope for currencies and payment in mental health services and remains unchanged.
This information will be of particular interest to organisations involved in delivering secondary mental health and learning disability care to adults and older people, as it presents timely information to support discussions between providers and commissioners of services. The MHLDS Monthly Report also includes reporting by local authority for the first time.
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 hospital and subject to the Mental Health Act (MHA). Some of these measures are currently experimental analysis.
The Currency and Payment (CaP) measures can be found in a separate machine-readable data file and may also be accessed via an on-line interactive visualisation tool that supports benchmarking. This can be accessed through the related links at the bottom of the page.
This release also includes a note about the new experimental data file and the issuing of the ISN for the Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS).
During summer 2015 we undertook a consultation on Adult Mental Health Statistics, seeking users views on the existing reports and what might usefully be added to our reports when the new version of the dataset (MHSDS) is implemented in 2016. A report on this consultation can be found below.