This annual report relates to data extracted from Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS) for activity undertaken within the financial year 2012-13.
The publication for 2012-13 was produced from a single file compiled by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) from the quarterly submissions (2012-13 data). This uses a new, centrally derived, unique Spell ID to link patient spells across these quarters.
We have, for this publication, designed a process for compiling a cumulative annual file, which removes the duplication of episodic data that occurs across (and sometimes within) quarterly submissions. From April 2013, MHMDS (v 4.1) has been published monthly and this data will be linked using the unique Spell ID to create an annual file for this data for 2013-14 reporting.