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Mental Health Bulletin, 2021-22 Annual report

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
24 Nov 2022
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Mental Health Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Country, Primary Care Organisations, Care Trusts, NHS Trusts, Local Authorities, Regions, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships, County
Date Range:
01 Apr 2006 to 31 Mar 2022

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Main Findings

Proportion of population in contact with services

Please note, an issue was uncovered with Table 3 in both Excel Reference Files presented in this publication. The error related to the proportion of the population in contact with mental health services in 2021-22. This error has now been rectified and files reissued. The error only impacts the data in Table 3, the CSV and Power BI data were unaffected.

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Summary

This publication provides the most detailed picture available of people who used NHS funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services in England during the financial year 2021-22.

All the analysis included in this publication can be found in the reference data tables, and in the associated machine-readable data file. Information you need to know about the quality of these statistics and how they can be interpreted can be found in the main report. An interactive report is also available allowing you to explore some statistics in further detail.

Demographic analysis (age, gender, ethnicity and Index of Multiple Deprivation) is presented for 2021-22. Please consult previous editions of this publication series for demographic analysis for previous years. All annual and monthly publications relating to uses of mental health, learning disabilities and autism services can be found in the related links below.

Please note: This publication covers the 2021-22 reporting year and will likely show some of the impacts of COVID-19 however there were no official lockdowns during the period. In places comparisons are made to the 2020-21 reporting year which did feature the impact of the COVID-19 and COVID-19 lockdowns during the pandemic in England.

NHS Digital is continually working to improve the relevance and usefulness of content in the Mental Health Bulletin. As a result this annual report includes the addition of a number of new reference tables. These tables have been split out by geographical breakdown and with a focus on inpatients or outpatients. Improvements to the publication page have also been made to improve accessibility.

Access the code used to create this report

The code used to create the outputs for this report is available on our NHS Digital GitHub webpage.

Click here to access the code

Key Facts

3,256,695 people were known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services at some point in the year. 992,647 of these were under 18 years of age.

5.8% of people in England were known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services during this year. This is compared to 5.0% of people in 2020-21 and 4.9% in 2019-20.

3.0% (97,160) of people known to be in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services spent time in hospital as part of being in contact with these services during 2021-22. This is compared to 3.5% (97,103) in 2020-21 and 3.8% (104,035) in 2019-20.

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Open the Interactive Dashboard

The Mental Health Bulletin Dashboard provides time series data dating back to 2016-17. The dashboard also presents visuals for the demographic breakdowns and percentage change values at national level.

The underlying data has also been made available in CSV format.  

This tool is in Microsoft Power BI which does not fully support all accessibility needs. If you need further assistance, please contact us for help.

Last edited: 11 March 2024 2:25 pm