Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance October 2024
Official statistics
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'.
Changes to Submission Windows for Restrictive Intervention Performance Reporting
From October 2024 activity, restrictive interventions performance data will now be reported from submissions made in the month following the activity period, rather than the second month.
As such, from October 2024 activity onwards the only monthly performance reporting using two windows will be the 'perinatal quarterly' files. As the maternity services dataset continues to use two windows for performance reporting, the perinatal quarterly files are based on second-window reporting in MHSDS also.
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.
New Measures
As part of this Performance October 2024 publication, the following has been added
- 2 new referral spells measures (MRS15 and MRS16)
- 2 new breakdowns for all referral spells measures - Commissioning Region, Sub ICB of GP Practice or Residence
- 14 new OAPs measures relating to rates and proportions of inappropriate OAPs (OAP05 - OAP11a)
Full details are available in the Metadata file and Mental Health Services publication list.
Key Facts
1.98 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of October
The majority of these (1.35 million) were in contact with adult mental health services
466,792 people were in contact with children and young people’s mental health services, at the end of October
286,184 people were in contact with learning disabilities and autism services, at the end of October
486,241 new referrals were received, and 2.41 million care contacts were attended, during October
22,922 people were subject to the Mental Health Act, including 16,762 people detained in hospital, at the end of October
This is the seventh 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: 11 December 2024 5:08 pm