Routine Quarterly MHMDS Reports

Organisations that provide specialist mental health services currently make four quarterly MHMDS submissions and one annual submission each year. The submission deadlines are approximately 6 weeks after the end of the quarter and some routine quarterly reports are published 6 to 8 weeks later (an annual report is published in November).

The organisation level quarterly reports can be downloaded from this page. Each quarterly release also includes organisation level data quality reports.

Mental Health Performance Indicators

The Department of Health's NHS Performance Framework for non FT mental health trusts was implemented in April 2010. The indicators in the framework that use Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) quarterly data are released on this page. The indicator values for all organisations that submit MHMDS, including some independent sector organisations, are presented for information, but it should be noted that only non FT mental health trusts are performance managed by the Department of Health (DH).

June 2011: Please note that the DH has announced amendments to the definitions for 2011/12 which will be implemented from Q1 2011/12.

In 2009/10 indicator values were published in the run up to full implementation of the framework from April 2010

Mental Health Activity

These statistics show the volume of activity for key elements of specialist mental health services for adults provided by NHS organisations. Comparison quarterly figures are shown starting with Q1 2009-10 and including the most recent available quarterly data. Since December 2010 these figures also include information about Supervised Community Treatment.

March 2011: A new version of the dataset (MHMDS version 4) is being introduced in 2011/12 and this means that the content of the Mental Health Activity element of the quarterly MHMDS publication will change. We welcome suggestions about what elements of mental health activity should be included in future. Suggestions should be emailed to mhmds@ic.nhs.uk with 'New MHMDS reports' in the subject line.