Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to collect data relating to young people making the transition to adult mental health services from child and adolescent mental health to show the (a) number of those young people, (b) age of those young people, (c) time taken to transfer those young people between those services and (d) number of those young people discharged without their being transferred to adult mental health services.
The Mental Health Services dataset was introduced in January 2016 and collects data on people in contact with National Health Service funded secondary mental health services. The dataset includes people of any age. This means that it is possible to collect data on the transition of people from child and adolescent mental health services to adult mental health services. This includes data relating to the number of those young people; the age of those young people; the time taken to transfer those young people between children and young people’s mental health services; and, the number of those young people discharged without their being transferred to adult mental health services.