Mental Health Bulletin, 2024-25 Annual report

• 4,129,290 people were known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services at some point during 2024-25.
• 1,215,651 of these were under 18 years of age and 2,852,955 were aged 18 or over.
• Changes in scope, issues with the quality of some submissions and the increase in submitting providers have impacted on the comparability of statistics prior to 2016-17 with 2016-17 onwards. Full details of this can be found in the Making comparisons with previous years section of this report.
• Statistics for people of all ages prior to 2016-17 are most closely comparable with statistics for people aged 18 or over from 2016-17 onwards due to the inclusion of mental health services for children and young people from this year.

• 15.6% of people aged 90 or over (83,093), 13.3% of people aged between 85 and 89 years old (126,623), and 9.3% of people aged between 80 and 84 years old (142,881) in England were known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities or autism services during 2024-25. This will include people in contact with these services because of organic mental health disorders such as dementia. This compares to 7.0% of people of all ages who were known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities or autism services during 2024-25.
• 3.1% of people aged 18 or over (87,968) known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities or autism services had spent time admitted as an inpatient as part of their care during 2024-25.

• 20.1% of 16 year old females (70,406) and 18.4% of 17 year old females (61,978) in England were known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities or autism services during 2024-25. 13.2% of 16 year old males (48,762) and 12.1% of 17 year old males (43,425) in England were known to be in contact with these services.
• The number of in-year bed days for females aged under 18 known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities or autism services during 2024-25 were 168,763. The number of in-year bed days for males aged under 18 known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities or autism services during 2024-25 were 50,958. This is compared to 208,049 bed days for females aged under 18 and 53,639 bed days for males aged under 18 in 2023-24.
• The number of people in contact with secondary mental health services aged 11 to 15 increased by 4.6%, from 541,446 to 566,520.

Between 2023-24 and 2024-25:

• The number of people in contact with services increased by 8.9%, from 3,790,826 to 4,129,290.
• The number of in year bed days decreased by 3.5%, from 9,403,315 to 9,071,445. 
• This is also reflected in the change in the number of admissions and discharges between years.  
• The number of admissions decreased by 1.7%, from 102,738 to 100,986.  
• The number of discharges decreased by 1.6%, from 101,981 to 100,321.
• The number of care contacts increased by 7.7%, from 30,210,248 to 32,539,385.  
• In 2024-25, 81.7% of all care contacts were attended, compared with 82.1% in 2023-24.