Event description
The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act (MHA), completed in 2018, made several recommendations about improvements to MHA data, including that there should be an accurate, national baseline of MHA data. This recommendation was taken forward in the Government’s White Paper, Reforming the Mental Health Act (2021), in which it was stated that this baseline should cover overall use of the MHA and issues of equality.
NHS Digital’s annual publication of mental health statistics, however, continues to highlight persistent issues with the completeness and quality of data submitted to the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS). Some non-legislative elements of the MHA reforms are already being implemented and the Draft Mental Health Bill was published in June 2022, with the first legislative measures to be implemented from 2024-25. Therefore, it is now crucial to focus on driving up MHA data quality, both to help understand the impact of the reforms as they are implemented and so that systems have the right data on which to base decisions about service improvement.
NHS Digital host and maintain a Restrictive Interventions (RI) Power BI Dashboard with the data source coming from the MHSDS, this allows users to view the number of restrictive practices at National, Regional and Trust level. Additional work on the dashboard continues with exploration into adding ‘Provider Collaborative’ and ‘sustained patient injury’ flags to the data set. Data quality and completeness within these fields is vital for systems to be able to effectively review patient safety.
Alongside the Restrictive Practice Dashboard there is a Children Young People (CYP) Tier 4 Restrictive Practice Dashboard which is being created by NHS Digital and published. This is in support of a specific CYP CQUIN looking at the data quality.
This webinar will be jointly hosted by NHS Digital, NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to support improvements in Mental Health Act and Restrictive Intervention data quality.
It will:
- highlight common issues in data submitted to the MHSDS
- provide an overview of new MHA and Restrictive Interventions technical guidance, and the MHA and Restrictive Intervention dashboards, which have been developed to support improved MHA data quality
- explain how CQC use data to monitor the use of the MHA and RI
- provide an opportunity for Q&A with members of the panel
Target audience
This webinar is targeted at:
- colleagues submitting MHA and restrictive interventions data to the MHSDS
- colleagues who work with patients that are detained under the MHA and/or may be subject to restrictive interventions
- regional data quality leads
Send your questions
To ensure this webinar is beneficial to you, please send your questions to: [email protected] by 1 October.
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