National Clinical Audit of Psychosis Data for England, 2017 Community Patients

England's aggregated data from the 2017 National Clinical Audit of Psychosis, focusing on patients living in the community with schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorder. The data was collected by Mental Health Trusts to enable comparisons with earlier audits from 2012 and 2014. It is provided by the Government Digital Service under an Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking mental health service performance across English Trusts based on the audit's aggregated metrics.
• Analyzing care standards for community-based patients with schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorder.
• Comparing clinical audit findings over time, as the data is structured for comparability with 2012 and 2014 reports.

Strengths

• Data is structured for direct comparability with two previous national audit rounds (2012 and 2014).
• Focuses on a defined clinical sub-sample: community-dwelling patients with specific diagnoses on a set census date.
• Aggregated at the Mental Health Trust level, which is a standard administrative unit for analysis in England.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analytical tasks.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Aggregated clinical audit data collected by Mental Health Trusts in England.

Time Range

Census date of 1 July 2017, with reporting for the 2018 core audit.

Freshness

Data is from the 2017 audit; last platform update date is unknown.

Geography

England, aggregated by Mental Health Trusts.