Occasional Paper No. 24 - The Mental Health Minimum Data Set: A First Sight of the Data

The mental health minimum data set (MHMDS) was introduced fully in April 2003. It is designed to show the detailed patterns of care received by individuals looked after by specialist mental health care providers in England. Each mental health provider trust makes quarterly and annual returns documenting the care they have provided to individual patients. This occasional paper uses the year end returns for 2004/05 to identify the challenges involved in readying this new data source for full national use and to provide an introduction to the key issues in assessing MHMDS data quality and the challenges involved in improving it.

• Mental Health

• Activity Data
• Community Mental Health Services
• Data
• Health Care DH
• Health Care (gcl)
• Mental Health
• Mental Health (gcl)
• Mental Health Services
• Mental Illness
• Quality