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
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Author: Mental Health Team, NHS England
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