The Mental Health Minimum Data Set 2006/07 and 2007/08

The Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) was introduced in April 2003, to collect detailed data on the mental health care received by individuals in England. Since that time, data have become available for secondary analysis in batches. Two years data, covering the NHS years 2006/7 and 2007/8 were made available to the Public Health Observatories in August 2009. An analysis of the substantive findings in these datasets was published by the NHS Information Centre. This paper provides an overview of a number of data quality issues emerging from the datasets. We reported on an overview of the data quality in the returns for 2004/5, here we review the issues in these more recent data.

• Mental Health

• Mental Health
• Mental Health Services