Publication, Part of Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services

Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services July 2019

Official statistics

Publication Date:: 10 Oct 2019
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Country, Regions, Primary Care Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups
Date Range:: 17 Oct 2016 to 31 Jul 2019

Summary

This report presents findings from the Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services July 2019 collection. The collection is expected to capture the details of all out of area placements in acute adult mental health inpatient services in England from both NHS and independent providers. NHS Digital is running this interim data collection in the Clinical Audit Platform (CAP) until the data becomes aligned and available from the Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS). The MHSDS is the chosen mechanism for the long term collection of this data.

A refresh of 2017-18 inappropriate out of area placement bed days by three month period for use in NHS England Quality Premium calculations can be found here: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/find-data-and-publications/supplementary-information/2018-supplementary-information-files/inappropriate-oap-days-in-rolling-three-month-groups-starting-with-march-2017-and-ending-with-march-2018-by-england-sending-provider-region-stp-and-ccg

This monthly report of out of area placements should be interpreted with caution, as with the previous reports in this series. The Limitations section sets out these issues more fully.

This month, 55 organisations have participated in this collection, out of 57 organisations in scope. This means that 96 per cent of organisations have participated. The definition of participation can be found on page 5 of the report.