UPDATE February 2021: Two issues affecting the contextual information for indicator 1.5.i have been identified. Neither of these issues affected the indicator values and both have been corrected in the excel and CSV files for this indicator:

Issue 1: The confidence intervals for the mental health mortality rate were originally calculated using Dobson’s method for counts where less than 389 deaths were observed. Although this is a valid method, the assured methodology for this indicator does not include this adjustment. The indicator specification has also been updated to remove reference to Dobson's method.

Issue 2: There were some minor errors in the England level mental health population due to the inclusion of some duplicates.

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This indicator is a measure of the extent to which adults with a serious mental illness (SMI) die younger than adults without a serious mental illness (nSMI).

To measure premature mortality in adults diagnosed with serious mental illness (SMI).

This indicator was put on hold in November 2016. The introduction of the new mental health services data set (MHSDS) meant that a new indicator methodology needed to be developed. The indicator was republished with new data in December 2020. The republished data uses a different methodology to the data published in 2016 and prior to this. As such, comparisons should not be made between the two.

Legacy unique identifier: P01740