Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics

Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance February, Provisional March 2022

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Publication Date:: 12 May 2022
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs), Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Provider, Mental Health Trusts, Regions, Ambulance Trusts, NHS Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Regions, Country
Date Range:: 01 Mar 2021 to 31 Mar 2022

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Data Quality

Release of 'End of Year Final' data and other updates

Release of 'End of Year Final' data

From April 2020 onwards, NHS Digital has been implementing a multiple submission window model (MSWM) for MHSDS. This allows providers to retrospectively submit data for a specific reporting period once the initial provisional and performance submission windows have closed. Please click on 'Multiple Submission Window Model' under 'Related Links' at the bottom of this page for further information.

'End of Year Final' versions of the main monthly csv files for each of the 5 months between October 2021 and February 2022, collected under MHSDS version 5, which reflect these revised 2021/22 MSWM submissions that occurred after 'Performance' monthly data had already been published are now available.

'End of Year Final' versions of the 'Restrictive Interventions' csv files have also been made available.

'End of Year Final' versions of the main monthly csv files for each of the 5 months between April 2021 and August 2021, collected under MHSDS version 4.1, were published in April 2022.

The September 2021 publication was the final monthly report to be published using data collected under MHSDS version 4.1, and as such, contained 'End of Year Final' rather than 'Performance' data when originally published. The Provisional October, Provisional November 2021 publication was the first monthly report to be published using data collected under MHSDS version 5.

The MHSDS Monthly: Performance and Provisional Access and Waiting Times Reference Tables excel files have not been reissued using 'End of Year Final' data. However the underlying Access and Waiting Times measures are available as 'End of Year Final' data within the MHSDS Monthly: End of Year Final MHSDS Data CSV file.

MHSDS version change

This is the fifth monthly release using data collected under MHSDS version 5. Please refer to the January 2022 publication for an outline of the changes to the dataset introduced by the move to MHSDS version 5. 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.

Error affecting Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) and Children’s Eating Disorders (ED) metrics

An error has been found in the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) and Children’s Eating Disorders (ED) metrics. The error means that version 4.1 data is being evaluated using version 5 criteria, and as such, activity from September 2021 or earlier that forms part of the pathway and is valid under version 4.1 but not under version 5 has been wrongly excluded from the calculation of the metric.

This impacts published Performance data for October 2021 to February 2022.

The error has been corrected for the March 2022 Final data published on 9 June 2022. It has also been corrected in the ‘End of Year Final’ data for each month between October 2021 and February 2022, published on each of the relevant monthly publication pages on 14 July 2022.

Performance data for October 2021 to February 2022 will not be corrected, as the monthly Performance data for each of these months has now been superseded by the corrected ‘End of Year Final’ monthly data.

Please refer to 'Notes on Measures' for further details and an assessment of the impact of the error.

NHS Digital apologises for any inconvenience.

11 July 2022 09:30 AM

Summary

This publication provides the timeliest picture available of people using NHS funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services in England. These are experimental statistics which are undergoing development and evaluation. 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 made available later in our Mental Health Bulletin: Annual Report publication series.

COVID-19 and the production of statistics

Due to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) disruption, the quality and coverage of some of our statistics has been affected, for example by an increase in nonsubmissions for some datasets. We are also seeing some different patterns in the submitted data. For example, fewer patients are being referred to hospital and more appointments being carried out via phone/telemedicine/email. Therefore, data should be interpreted with care over the COVID-19 period.

Updates to measures

For details of new measures recently introduced, or changes to existing measures, see the 'Notes on measures' page. There were no new measures released as part of this publication. Full details of any changes are also available in the associated Metadata file.

Key Facts Based on 'End of Year Final' data

At the end of February, there were 1,578,777 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,050,510) were in adult mental health services.
There were 380,119 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 197,737 in learning disabilities and autism services.
383,588 new referrals were received into services during February and 1,904,401 care contacts were attended. 21,336 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of February, including 16,254 people detained in hospital.

Key Facts Based on 'Performance' data (superseded by 'End of Year Final' statistics)

At the end of February, there were 1,575,820 people in contact with services; the majority of these (1,054,003) were in adult mental health services.
There were 374,646 people in contact with children and young people’s mental health services and 196,008 in learning disabilities and autism services.
367,594 new referrals were received into services during February and 1,898,443 care contacts were attended. 21,242 people were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of February, including 16,110 people detained in hospital.