Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS) Includes Currencies And Payment Information For The First Time
Information about patients eligible to be cared for under a new commissioning system for mental health has been released for the first time.
The figures are included as part of the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s1 (HSCIC) April 2014 monthly MHMDS2 report.
The information will support commissioners introducing the new mental health currencies and payment system3, which is due to be rolled out across England in 2014-15.
The new system involves assigning patients to one of 21 ‘care clusters’ so that payments for their care can be appropriately managed. Care clusters are groupings of people in contact with secondary mental health services based on their needs.
The report features 75 new measures, including the ten national quality and outcome measures recommended by NHS England and Monitor3. It includes information about the number of patients using mental health services who were in scope for mental health currencies and payment and assigned a care cluster; the number of people who were within the review period4 of their care cluster at the end of April; the number of patients newly assigned to a care cluster in April; and how many of these newly assigned patients met the ‘red rules’5, or essential criteria for their care cluster.
The measures are presented at national, CCG and provider levels for April 2014 and show where patients are receiving services and the volumes of activity. The data will continue to be produced on a monthly basis.
The report is available at: http://www.hscic.gov.uk/pubs/mhmdsapr14
