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Publication, Part of

Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services, July 2022

Official statistics

Publication Date:
13 Oct 2022
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Country, Regions, Ambulance Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, NHS Trusts
Date Range:
17 Oct 2016 to 31 Jul 2022

Cyber Incident Impact

Unfortunately, a handful of providers of OAPs data have been affected by a recent cyber incident.  NHS Digital has actively worked with these providers to understand how best to resolve any data submission issues that may have occurred as a result. We also continue to encourage affected providers to reach out to [email protected] as well as their regional Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) teams.

Review of data received to end of Sept 2022 suggests the impact on monthly OAPs data is limited. We’ll continue to monitor this closely and introduce contingency measures if required. No changes to submission processes will be introduced while service providers are actively dealing with this issue.

13 October 2022 00:00 AM

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Summary

This report presents findings from the Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services July 2022 collection. The collection is expected to capture the details of all Out of Area Placements in England from both NHS and independent providers. NHS Digital is running this interim data collection in the Clinical Audit Platform (CAP) until the data becomes aligned and available from the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS). The MHSDS is the chosen mechanism for the long term collection of this data.

This monthly report of Out of Area Placements should be interpreted with caution, as with the previous reports in this series. The limitations section sets out these issues more fully.

This month 44 organisations have participated in this collection, out of the 57 organisations in scope. This means that 77 percent of organisations have participated. The definition of participation can be found on page 5 of the report.

COVID-19 and the production of statistics

Due to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) disruption, the quality and coverage of some of our statistics may have been affected. We have seen different patterns in the submitted data across this period, therefore, data should be interpreted with care.

Last edited: 12 October 2022 5:11 pm