Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance August 2024
Official statistics
Issue with access metrics
An issue was identified with the sub national geographies present in the initial published files in the 4 access metrics (MHS91, MHS95, MHS108 and MHS109). This issue meant that data at sub national commissioning geographies were an undercount. Data for the four metrics has been revised using the cut of latest data available which was cut at the end of October 2024.
The data for the four metrics has been replaced in the main and time-series files and where this has occurred the status will reflect "Adhoc" rather than "Performance".
19 November 2024 11:32 AM
Summary
This publication provides the timeliest picture available of people using NHS funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services in England, excluding those who are solely in contact with Talking Therapies. This information will be of use to people needing access to information quickly for operational decision making and other purposes. More detailed information on the quality and completeness of these statistics is available in the Data Quality section, as well as within the Data Coverage and Data Quality VODIM and Integrity files available under 'Resources'.
Changing the submission windows for the Mental Health Services Data
This August 2024 performance publication contains all data relating to the reporting period in it, with the exception of restraints data. This is because these reports are still being published in the second month following the activity. Providers have indicated that there is often some delay until the restraints data is available for them to submit. As a result, the timeliness with which NHS England receives restraints data does not currently support 'first cut' reporting, although it may do in the future should timeliness improve.
Performance reporting for restraints was added to this page for August 2024 on November 14th.
Mental Health publications consultation
NHS England are consulting on the future of Mental Health reporting. This consultation covers the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, the Mental Health Bulletin and the Mental Health Act, Annual Figures publications.
The consultation is designed to help make decisions about future reporting and to ensure that the data provided is as useful as possible. The survey link further down this this page (or here) is available for users to provide feedback directly.
If you would like to discuss your views in more detail with us, please email [email protected] including "Mental Health Publications consultation" in the subject.
Access the code used to create this report
The code used to create the outputs for this report is available on our NHS Digital GitHub webpage.
Changing of in-scope teams for CYP pathway referral spells measures
Please note that an adjustment has been made to the methodology of the children and young people (CYP) referral spell metrics. The following teams have been removed from being in-scope of the CYP pathway referral spells measures.
These referrals are identified by a service or team type recorded as one of the following.
- E02 - Epilepsy/Neurological Service
- E03 - Specialist Parenting Service
- E04 - Enhanced/Intensive Support Service
Key Facts
1.94 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of August
The majority of these (1.34 million) were in contact with adult mental health services
439,769 people were in contact with children and young people’s mental health services, at the end of August
283,304 people were in contact with learning disabilities and autism services, at the end of August
391,915 new referrals were received, and 2.00 million care contacts were attended, during August
22,541 people were subject to the Mental Health Act, including 16,524 people detained in hospital, at the end of August
This is the fifth monthly release using data collected under MHSDS version 6. Please refer to the April 2024 publication for an outline of the changes to the dataset introduced by the move to MHSDS version 6. Full details of the changes to the dataset are available in the Technical Output Specification and the updated constructions for all measures in this publication are available in the metadata file.
Resources
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