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Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services October 2017

This is part of

Audit, Official statistics
Publication date:
Geographic coverage:
England
Geographical granularity:
Country, Primary Care Trusts, Regions, Clinical Commissioning Groups
Date range:
17 Oct 2016 to 31 Oct 2017

Summary

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

Update January 2018: Table 9 has been updated due to an error in reporting participation for some organisations. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Key facts

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

This month, 47 organisations have participated in this collection out of 56 organisations in scope. This means that 84 per cent of organisations have participated. The definition of participation can be found on page 5 of the report.

This report only contains OAPs that started on or after 17 October 2016 (the date this OAPs collection launched). It is estimated that due to this starting point, this report would only include around 95 per cent of all OAPs active during the collection period, if all providers in scope had submitted data. The Limitations section of this report sets out how this estimation was made.

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