Summary
This report presents analysis of costing data for mental health activity in 2019-20 submitted to the Patient Level Information and Costing System (PLICS) data collection by mental health NHS providers in England.
The PLICS Mental Health data collection is part of NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Costing Transformation Programme (CTP). The CTP aims to improve the quality of costing information in the NHS, and support providers to improve the efficiency of their services.
This is the first publication in this series. These statistics are classified as experimental and should be used with caution. Further information about limitations is provided in this report.
The data from the 2019-20 PLICS Mental Health collection is used by NHS England and NHS Improvement in the National Cost Collection (NCC) publication. Information on how analysis in this report may differ from the NCC published analysis is included in the section ‘Relationship to NHS England and NHS Improvement’s National Cost Collection outputs’.
41 mental health providers reported a total cost of £5.4 billion including
£2.5 billion relating to 11.9 million care contacts £2.9 billion relating to hospital spells
(Following data quality checks by NHS England and NHS Improvement, a small number of submissions were excluded from the data used for this report. Details are included in the coverage section of the data quality statement.)
The Covid-19 pandemic began to affect levels of NHS activity during the last few weeks of the financial year 2019-20. This may affect both activity counts and costs included in this report, although the impact is likely to be limited as most of the reporting period was not affected by the pandemic.
Last edited: 12 May 2021 4:02 pm
