Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 229 days ago
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Description:
The Mental Health Services Data Set is a patient level, output based, secondary uses data set which aims to deliver robust, comprehensive, nationally consistent and comparable person-based information for children, young people and adults who are in contact with mental health services located in England or located outside England but treating patients commissioned by an English CCG or NHS England specialised commissioner. As a secondary uses data set it re-uses clinical and operational data for purposes other than direct patient care, for example: commissioning, service improvement and service design. It defines the data items, definitions and associated value sets extracted or derived from local Electronic Patient Record systems.
In Scope: All activity relating to people who receive specialist secondary mental health care services and have, or are thought to have, a mental illness; or who receive specialist secondary learning disabilities or autism spectrum disorder services and have, or are thought to have, a learning disability or autism spectrum disorder is within scope of the MHSDS. The scope of the data set requires record level data submission for each person attending a service located in England: • if the person is wholly funded by the NHS data submission for that person is mandatory • if the person is partially funded by the NHS data submission for that person is mandatory • if the person is wholly funded by any means that is not NHS data submission is optional
For each person attending a service located outside England, but commissioned by an English CCG or NHS England specialised commissioner: • data submission is optional.
Included Organisation Types: Service providers and organisations that provide specialist secondary mental health and/or learning disabilities and/or autism spectrum disorder services including: • NHS Mental Health Trusts • NHS Learning Disabilities Trusts • NHS Acute Trusts • NHS Care Trusts • Independent sector healthcare providers offering a service model that includes NHS funded patients • Any qualified provider offering specialist secondary mental health, learning disabilities or autism spectrum disorder services • Community services offering secondary care to children
Out of Scope: The following areas are currently out of scope and should not be included: • Any patient receiving treatment through an in-scope service but is not thought to have a mental illness, learning disability or autism spectrum disorder e.g. o Smoking cessation services o Addictions and substance misuse services o Some alternative therapy services o Some counselling services. • Mental health, learning disabilities, and autism spectrum disorder services provided only at a primary care level (such as within general practices or adult IAPT).
Additional information inc. technical specifications and user guidance: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/mental-health-services-data-set
Coverage
Typical Age Range:
1-150
Follow Up:
Other
Pathway:
Secondary Mental Health Care Pathway except adult Improving Access to
Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
Provenance
Origin
Collection Situations:
- Secondary care - In-patients
- Community
- Other
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Monthly
Start Date:
01 January 2016
End Date:
31 March 2024
Time Lag:
2-6 months
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
Once your DARS application has been approved, data will be made available either
by secure file transfer or through the Data Access Environment (DAE). Secure
file transfer: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/transfer-data-securely DAE:
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-environment-dae
Access Request Cost:
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
GB-ENG
Data Controller:
NHS England (NHSE)
Data Processor:
NHS England (NHSE)
Usage
Data Use Requirements:
- Ethics approval required
- Not for profit use
- Project-specific restrictions
- User-specific restriction
Resource Creators:
NHS ENGLAND
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
- OPCS4
- READ
- SNOMED CT
- NHS NATIONAL CODES
- ICD10
Languages:
en
Formats:
- TAB
- XML
- JSON
- Other
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Events
New referrals were received into mental health services during October 2020, as recorded in the mental health services dataset
357042
Count
19 November 2020
Persons
At the end of October 2020 there were 1,358,959 people in contact with mental health services recorded in the mental health services dataset
1358959
Count
19 November 2020
Persons
People were subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of October 2020 as recorded in the mental health services dataset
20644
Count
19 November 2020