Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
(asked on 26th February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 27 of Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper, published by his Department on 4 March 2016, what proportion of patients who were (a) young people and (b) children started urgent treatment within one week in each quarter of (i) 2010-2011, (ii) 2011-2012, (iii) 2012-2013, (iv) 2013-2014, (v) 2014-2015, (vi) 2015-2016, (vii) 2016-2017 and (viii) 2017-2018.
The Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS) has included data regarding children and young people’s mental health since January 2016. Available information on the proportion of children and young people starting urgent treatment is shown in the table below. The data was not collected before January 2016.
Children and Young People (CYP) Waiting Time Target for Eating Disorder Services
CYP Waiting Time Target for Eating Disorder Services | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | |||||
Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | |
% of CYP starting treatment for an urgent case within one week against a target of 95% | 64.9% | 58% | 67.2% | 68.7% | 73.3% | 71% | 76.9% |
% of CYP starting treatment for routine care within four weeks against a target of 95% | 65.1% | 67.5% | 79% | 78.9% | 78.7% | 82.4% | 83.1% |
Source: Unify2 data is available quarterly starting from Quarter 1 in 2016/17
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cyped-waiting-times/
Note: The data collection is still experimental, with a focus on data quality and completion. Anticipating poor quality data in the early stages of the MHSDS, NHS England implemented an interim data collection via Unify2 that focused on the referral to treatment waiting time element of the CYP with an Eating Disorder evidence based care pathway. This interim measure enabled collection of data and is helping to verify and improve the quality of statistics derived from the MHSDS.
The publicly available Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard also reports against access and waiting times for CYP on eating disorders. The dashboard captures this range of data at a local clinical commissioning group, Sustainability and Transformation Partnership and national level and is available here:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/