Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance July 2024
Official statistics
Issue with median and 90th percentile metrics in the referral spells data
Please note that an issue has been identified with the MRS03a, MRS03b, MRS10a, MRS10b figures. These relate to median and 90th percentile waiting times.
The issue has been resolved and the files replaced.
16 September 2024 08:30 AM
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 11:31 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'.
Implementation of referral spells using MHSDS data
As part of the September 2024 Performance publication in the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics publication series, a new set of metrics will be introduced which utilise a new methodology which groups sets of individual referrals into a referral spell. Using this methodology, a spell is defined as starting at the point the first referral that is in scope is received by a provider. From this point, other referrals can form part of a referral spell where they are open concurrently or where the next referral opens within 5 days of the previous referral ending. A spell is closed when the last referral is recorded as closed (using the service discharge date).
Only referrals which fall within the inclusion and exclusion criteria will make up the referral spell. Where a person has other open referrals within the same provider that are not in scope for either of the two pathways, these referrals will not be included in the spell.
Data which utilises the referral spell methodology will be published in a separate CSV file in the Mental Health Monthly Statistics publication and also will be denoted by Metric IDs that begin with “MRS”.
Please note that April, May and June 2024 referral spell data has been published on the respective publication pages.
Full details can be found in the methodological change notice here
Changing the submission windows for the Mental Health Services Data
This July 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 July 2024 on October 10th.
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.
Key Facts
1.95 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of July
The majority of these (1.34 million) were in contact with adult mental health services
453,127 people were in contact with children and young people’s mental health services, at the end of July
279,308 people were in contact with learning disabilities and autism services, at the end of July
457,917 new referrals were received, and 2.30 million care contacts were attended, during July
22,258 people were subject to the Mental Health Act, including 16,317 people detained in hospital, at the end of July
This is the fourth 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
Last edited: 19 November 2024 11:32 am