Publication, Part of Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance October 2025
Official statistics
New Breakdowns
As part of this Performance October 2025 publication, the following 5 breakdowns have been added to all referral spell measures
- England; Pathway
- Provider; Pathway
- Commissioning Region; Pathway
- ICB of GP or Residence; Pathway
- Sub ICB of GP or Residence; Pathway
These referral-spell breakdowns will allocate referral-spell data into four overlapping categories based on primary reason for referral and service/team type. The categories are:
- autism
- other neurodevelopmental
- gender identity
- all ‘other’ referrals
For more information on the breakdowns, please see the quick guide for children and young people waiting times (referral spells).
Full details are available in the Metadata file and Mental Health Services publication list.
11 December 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'.
Highlights
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The code used to create the outputs for this report is available on our NHS Digital GitHub webpage.
Key Facts
2.17 million people were in contact with mental health services, at the end of October
The majority of these (1.46 million) were in contact with adult mental health services
507,136 people were in contact with children and young people’s mental health services, at the end of October
306,539 people were in contact with learning disabilities and autism services, at the end of October
503,628 new referrals were recieved, and 2.48 million care contacts were attended, during October
23,527 people were subject to the Mental Health Act, including 16,797 people detained in hospital, at the end of October
Resources
Last edited: 12 February 2026 7:44 am