Page last updated: 24-JUN-2008

Mental Health

The collection of information relating to mental health care reflects the variety of clinical settings in which this service is delivered.  People receiving their care as inpatients in psychiatric hospitals will generate records held nationally on Scottish Morbidity Record 04 (SMR04) which is dedicated to this area of health service provision.  Conversely, patient contact with, for example, specialist community mental health teams, general practice or outpatient facilities is recorded as part of more general data schemes. 

The information available by following the links below covers a broad range of mental health care services and their associated data sources.

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The information contained in this section has been updated to include data for year ending 31 March 2007

To date National data completeness for psychiatric hospital activity is estimated to be 97%. This is predominantly due to a shortfall in SMR04 data submissions from Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board, currently estimated to be 89% complete for year 2006/07.  For further information on National data completeness and data quality,  please see the link to Managing Data Quality

Hospital inpatients 
Summary of psychiatric hospital activity, including admissions, discharges, age & sex characteristics and geographic information

Mental illness inpatient specialities
Admissions to psychiatric hospital by clinical specialty and type of admission

Formal and informal admissions
Admissions to psychiatric hospitals under Mental Health Legislation

Destination on discharge
Information on where patients go following discharge from psychiatric hospital

Length of stay
Summary statistics on the time spent by inpatients in psychiatric hospitals

     

Discharges by diagnosis group
Volumes of discharges in selected key diagnostic groups by type of admission and age 

Mental Health diagnoses in Acute (general hospitals)
Links to information sources relating to mental health diagnoses in non-psychiatric hospitals

Psychiatric Bed Provision link opens in a new window
Link to ISD Acute Hospital Care web pages

Day patients
Trends in day patient attendance in the psychiatric specialties

Outpatients
Summary of attendance at outpatient clinics in the psychiatric specialties including non-attendance rates
Child Health Joint Future

Health information relating to children and young people  .

 

 Mental health services require joined up community care. For more detail see the Joint Future Programme pages.
Community Prescriptions Substance Misuse

Information on medicines prescribed for mental ill-health & relevant links

 

 Sample of the type of information available on drugs, and alcohol & relevant links (old page; under renovation)
General Practice Workforce

Link to General Practice pages including data on  Anxiety and Depression

Clinical Psychologists workforce project pages

Data on psychiatrists, nurses and allied health professionals (data is presented for all specialties including mental health)

Report containing data on those delivering Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. (PDF)