Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance August 2025
Official statistics
Publication Consultation
As part of ongoing work to review current reporting via the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics and the annual Mental Health Bulletin publication series, a number of potential changes have been identified. The overarching objective of this review is to streamline and consolidate MHSDS metrics, publications and dashboards. In doing so, we are aiming to strike the right balance between the views and needs of users of the data and the business requirement to move to a more sustainable publication schedule that matches our analytical capacity, while providing key information covered by the Bulletin, such as equality, in a form and frequency that better meets the needs of the system.
The consultation on the future of the monthly statistics publication can be found here: https://forms.office.com/e/YW4Q9ka8q9
There is a separate consultation on the retirement of the annual Bulletin which you can find here: https://forms.office.com/e/TSS0cgNSjK
These consultations close at 23:59 on Sunday 12th October 2025.
9 October 2025 09:30 AM
Issue with metrics relating to rates for IMD
An issue was uncovered which meant that rates relating to IMD where lower than the true value. The counts presented for IMD are correct.
This issue extends to metrics (including sub metrics) relating to IPS Access (MHS116), CYP Access (MHS95), Detentions (MHS157), CTOs (MHS158) and OAPS. Incorrect data has been removed from this publication. Provisional data will not be restated but these metrics will be released correctly as part of the end of year final data.
11 February 2026 17:00 PM
Summary
This publication provides the timeliest picture available of people using NHS funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services in England, excluding those who are solely in contact with Talking Therapies. This information will be of use to people needing access to information quickly for operational decision making and other purposes. More detailed information on the quality and completeness of these statistics is available in the Data Quality section, as well as within the Data Coverage and Data Quality VODIM and Integrity files available under 'Resources'.
Within the August 2025 Performance publication, new metrics relating to the Uses of the Mental Health Act have been added. These include rolling 12 month metrics providing rates and counts of the number of new detentions and CTOs. Additionally, new metrics have also been included to support the NHS Oversight Framework in 2025-26.
Highlights
Contact Us
If you have any views or feedback that you would like to discuss with us, please email [email protected] including "Mental Health Publications feedback" in the subject
Access the code used to create this report
The code used to create the outputs for this report is available on our NHS Digital GitHub webpage.
Key Facts
2.00 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of August
The majority of these (1.32 million) were in contact with adult mental health services
479,725 people were in contact with children and young people’s mental health services, at the end of August
299,972 people were in contact with learning disabilities and autism services, at the end of August
395,585 new referrals were received, and 2.05 million care contacts were attended, during August
23,125 people were subject to the Mental Health Act, including 16,668 people detained in hospital, at the end of August
Resources
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