The Health and Social Care Information Centre website www.hscic.gov.uk/mentalhealth provides access to data and information about mental health services.
In 2010/11 over 1.25 million adults accessed NHS services for severe or enduring mental health problems.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre helps the NHS to:
- monitor and plan mental health services effectively
- investigate the impact and coverage of mental health services at a local level
- inform groups of people from clinicians to the public.
Data is available at the Health and Social Care Information Centre on:
- Mental health admissions and emergency admissions – neurosis, psychosis, dementia
- Reported prevalence: neurosis, psychosis, dementia
- Depression severity assessment at outset and follow-up
- Patient experience of community mental health services
- Comprehensive care plan
- Employment
- Excess mortality
- QOF – Patients with psychosis with a health promotion review recorded in preceding 15 months
- Screening for depression in patients with diabetes and/or coronary heart disease
- QOF – psychosis register, dementia register
- Number of claimants/beneficiaries of incapacity benefit/allowance
- General Health Questionnaire GHQ12 score
- QOF – significant event review (suicide)
- Estimated diagnosis rate for people with dementia
- Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
- Mental Health Minimum Dataset – routine service data
Statistical publications
- Routine Quarterly MHMDS Report(Opens in a new window)
- Routine Monthly Improving Access to Psychological Therapies DQ reports
- Routine Quarterly Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Data Set reports
- Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Key Performance Indicators (IAT KPIs)
- Mental Health Bulletin – Fourth report from Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) annual returns, 2010
- Inpatients formally detained in hospitals under the Mental Health Act
- Guardianship Under the Mental Health Act
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Mental health surveys
- All mental health publications