Mental health dashboardThe mental health dashboard brings together information from a wide range of sources. It shows progress against objectives in the ‘No health without mental health strategy’ and gives a clear, concise picture of mental health outcomes. Read more »
Adult Social Care Outcomes websiteThis website enables visitors to find out how local authorities are performing against the outcome measures set out in the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework. Read more »
Outcome measuresThis knowledge summary provides an introduction to understanding mental health outcome measures. It covers general and patient rated outcome measures and specific measures for emotional difficulties, bipolar disorder, psychosis, substance misues and cognitive function. Read more »
CCG Outcomes ToolsInformation packs for CCGs and Local Authorities that set out key data to inform the local position on outcomes, including interactive versions. Read more »
Hospital Episode Statistics linkage to the Mental Health Minimum Data SetThis linked dataset, known as the HES-MHMDS, enables patients’ mental health data going back to 2006/07 to be matched to their recorded interactions with acute secondary care services. Read more »
Measuring National Well-beingThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) is developing new measures of national well-being to provide a fuller picture of how society is doing by supplementing existing economic, social and environmental measures. Read more »
Commissioning Outcomes FrameworkThis framework measures the health outcomes and quality of care (including patient reported outcome measures and patient experience) achieved by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). Read more »
INSPIRE is an outcomes measure designed to assess a service user’s experiences of the support they receive from a mental health worker for their recovery. Read more »
Detentions under the Mental Health Act in England, 2011-2012The latest data for 2011/12 suggest that the number of people subject to detention under the Mental Health Act continues to rise. There is increasing use of Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) with nearly half ending with the reinstatement of the underlying detention Section. Read more »
Measuring well-being: A guide for practitionersThis handbook, published by the New Economics Foundation, aims to help voluntary organisations and community groups kick-start the process of measuring well-being outcomes. Read more »
Mental health implementation frameworkThis framework sets out what organisations can do to make the 6 high-level outcomes of the mental health strategy No Health without Mental Health a reality. Read more »
Health Survey for England data setsThis is a series of annual surveys designed to measure health and health related behaviours in adults and children. Read more »
Wellbeing and Resilience Measure (WARM)The Wellbeing and Resilience Measure (WARM), developed by the Young Foundation, is a measure which combines existing data about localities, combining familiar statistics on such things as jobs and health with new ways of thinking about how happy and resilient communities are. Read more »
Recovery StarThe Recovery Star developed by the Mental Health Providers Forum, is an outcomes measure which enables people using services to measure their own recovery progress, with the help of mental health workers or others. Read more »
Adult Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyThe Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) series provides data on the prevalence of both treated and untreated psychiatric disorder in the English adult population (aged 16 and over). Read more »
Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing ScaleThe Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) is a validated population measure of mental wellbeing developed by Warwick and Edinburgh Universities. It comprises a scale of 14 positively worded items, with five response categories. Read more »
DIALOG is an outcomes measure to support structured conversation between patients and clinician focussing on the patients’ views of quality of life, needs for care and treatment satisfaction. Read more »
CUES is Patient Rated Outcome Measures (PROMS) which enable users of mental health services to rate their experience across the range of domains that they consider to be important. Read more »
Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS)HoNOS (Health of the Nation Outcomes Scales) was developed during the early 90s by the Royal College of Psychiatrists as a measure of the health and social functioning of people with severe mental illness. Read more »