Provisional September 2021 Mental Health Statistics

Care should be taken when interpreting these statistics as the data quality of provisional data is not as complete as performance data and it will cover a lower set of providers. As such the data will be limited to providing a large sample of provider activity across the country but not a full national picture. This is because provisional data is based on the initial submission from providers to the MHSDS.

The submission process encourages one month for an initial submission and a second month for more complete submissions where data quality and completeness can be improved.

There is no obligation to provide the primary submission and so a number of providers provide a single submission in the second month. The earlier primary submission is used to provide more timely information on service activity.

With the publication of the Community Mental Health Framework, CPA has now been superseded nationally.  As such, measures relating to CPA have been removed from all MHSDS outputs from April 2021 data onwards.

From Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics Performance January, Provisional February 2021 onwards:

1. Several EIP measures have had ethnicity added as a secondary breakdown. This was initially available at England level only. Provider and CCG level ethnicity breakdowns are included from Performance February, Provisional March 2021 onwards.
2. A range of children and young people with eating disorders measures have been added to the monthly release, all measures cover a rolling 3-month reporting period. These are available in standalone files which form part of the main publication.

From Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics Final March 2021, Provisional April 2021 onwards:

1. Five new Children and Young People (CYP) and Perinatal measures were added to the monthly release.  These have been produced by both NHS Digital and NHS England and as such are dual-badged.

From Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics Performance June 2021, Provisional July 2021 onwards:

1. Twelve length of stay measures were added to the monthly release.  These relate to people being discharged from adult acute and older adult acute beds as well as those being discharged aged 0 to 17. These metrics also include a rate of people discharged per 100,000 at CCG level.
2. Three Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) measures were added to the monthly release. These measures are related to EIP caseload and how many of these have NICE concordant SNOMED codes or any other SNOMED codes associated with their referral. These metrics use NHS England methodology.

From Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics Performance July 2021, Provisional August 2021 onwards:

1. Data relating to a specific theme previously published in standalone CSV files, including:

• Mental Health Act
• Children and Young People and Perinatal
• Length of Stay
• New Early Intervention in Psychosis

has now been incorporated into the main monthly file and as such no longer appear in standalone files.

Data relating to Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder has already been integrated into the main monthly file as of June 2021 Performance.

The usual, accompanying data quality and guidance information is not included here. This information will be published alongside these statistics (and others) in the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics Performance August, Provisional September 2021 publication released Thursday 11 November 2021.