Mental Health Services

(asked on 26th April 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mental health referrals have been made in (a) England and (b) London in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 4th May 2016

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has provided the number of new referrals to National Health Service funded secondary mental health and learning disabilities services in January 2016 for all ages shown in the following table. It should be noted that one individual could be referred many times in one year. This is the first period for which the information is available. The information forms part of the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS) which was mandated for collection from 1 January 2016.

Referrals starting in Reporting Period January 2016*

England total

259,601

Provider

North East London NHS Foundation Trust

5,395

West London Mental Health NHS Trust

3,235

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

315

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

4,525

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

3,230

Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

3,910

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

5,885

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

2,670

East London NHS Foundation Trust

5,615

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

2,620

*Data source: Health and Social Care Information Centre MHMDS 2011/02 to 2014/15 – Annual files

Before January 2016, information about NHS funded secondary mental health and learning disability services were collected in the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Dataset and prior to September 2014 – the MHMDS. These were person based datasets, rather than referral based datasets. The HSCIC has provided counts of individuals using services for 2011/12 to 2014/15 in the attached table.

These data are not directly comparable with each other.

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