Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance December 2025
Official statistics
New metrics and Breakdowns relating to the Mental Health Act
New Metrics
As part of this December 2025 performance publication, the following metrics have been added:
- MHS156c - Number of discharges in the RP for people aged 18 and over from adult acute and PICU beds
- MHS156d - Total bed days for discharges in the RP for people aged 18 and over from adult acute and PICU beds
- MHS156e - Mean Length of stay for discharges in the RP for people aged 18 and over from adult acute and PICU beds
- MHS156f - Number of discharges in the RP for people aged 18 and over from older adult acute beds
- MHS156g - Total bed days for discharges in the RP for people aged 18 and over from older adult acute beds
- MHS156h - Mean Length of stay for discharges in the RP for people aged 18 and over from older adult acute beds
- MHS159 - Number of CYP aged under 18 supported through NHS funded mental health with at least one contact with an education-based mental health support team (12 month rolling)
- MHS157d - Absolute mean deviation between White and other upper ethnicities of direct standardised rate per 100,000 of detentions in the reporting period (12 month rolling)
- MHS158d - Absolute mean deviation between White and other upper ethnicities of direct standardised rate per 100,000 of CTOs in the reporting period (12 month rolling)
- MHS95d - Absolute mean deviation between White and other upper ethnicities of direct standardised rate per 100,000 of CYP aged under 18 supported through NHS Funded mental health with at least one contact (12 month rolling)
Metrics MHS156c-h and MHS159 are broken down at England, Provider, Commissioning Region, ICB and Sub-ICB geographies. Metrics relating to mean deviation are presented at England, Commissioning Region and ICB level.
New Breakdowns
Additionally, a 12-month rolling cut of MRS01 and MRS08 has been added to the referral spells data. This can be found in the appropriate CSV file and is differentiated by the Reporting Period Start Date column.
Full details are available in the Metadata file and Mental Health Services publication list.
12 February 2026 09:30 AM
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'.
Highlights
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2.19 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of December
The majority of these (1.48 million) were in contact with adult mental health services
511,202 people were in contact with children and young people’s mental health services, at the end of December
303,204 people were in contact with learning disabilities and autism services, at the end of December
446,527 new referrals were recieved, and 2.23 million care contacts were attended, during December
23,600 people were subject to the Mental Health Act, including 16,552 people detained in hospital, at the end of December
Resources
Last edited: 12 March 2026 2:41 pm