Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics for Children and Young People

NHS Digital publishes monthly experimental statistics from the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS) focusing on children and young people. The data is available in CSV format and was last updated on 2026-07-08. It is released under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Monitor monthly trends in mental health service access based on the time-series nature of the statistics.
• Analyze service provision patterns for children and young people based on the dataset's focus.
• Benchmark mental health service performance across different regions based on the UK-wide source.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative NHS Digital Mental Health Services Data Set.
• Statistics are updated monthly, suggesting regular data refreshes.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NHS Digital

Collection Method

Aggregated from the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:28.937856; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom