NHS (England) Digital - Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS)

The Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS) brings together information captured on clinical systems as part of patient care. It covers not only services provided in hospitals but also outpatient clinics and in the community, where the majority of people in contact with these services are treated. It is a patient level, output based, secondary uses data set which aims to deliver robust, comprehensive, nationally consistent and comparable person-based information for children, young people and adults who are in contact with services for mental health and wellbeing, learning disability, autism or other neurodevelopmental conditions. As a secondary uses data set it re-uses clinical and operational data for purposes other than direct patient care. It defines the data items, definitions and associated value sets to be extracted or derived from local information systems.

The MHSDS

This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. An Information Standards Notice (see below) provides an overview of scope and implementation timescales, and the other listed documents provide further detail for those who have to implement the information standard.

Consult our own Metadata Catalogue for either of the following tables:

• MHS Master Patient Index table
• MHS GP data table
• NHS Accommodation status table
• MHS Employment status table
• MHS Patient indicators table
• MHS Mental Health Care Coordinator table
• MHS Disability type table
• MHS Care plan type table
• MHS Care plan arrangement table
• MHS Assistive technology to support disability type table
• MHS Social and Personal Circumstances table
• MHS Overseas Visitor Charging Category table
• MHS Service or Team Referral table
• MHS Service or Team Type Referred To table
• MHS Other Reason for Referral table
• MHS Referral to Treatment table
• MHS Onward Referral table
• MHS Discharge Plan Agreement table
• MHS Care Contact table
• MHS Care Activity table
• MHS Other in Attendance table
• MHS Indirect Activity table
• MHS Medical History (Previous Diagnosis) table
• MHS Provisional Diagnosis table
• MHS Primary Diagnosis table
• MHS Secondary Diagnosis table
• MHS Coded Scored Assessment (Referral) table
• MHS Coded Scored Assessment (Care Activity) table
• MHS Care Programme Approach (CPA) Care Episode table
• MHS Care Programme Approach (CPA) Review table

Web references:

• NHS Digital - Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS)

• NHS Digital - About the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS)

• NHS Digital - DCB0011: Mental Health Services Data Set (Please consider the 'Supporting documents' section)

• NHS Digital - Mental Health Services Data Set - Data dictionary ref.