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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2003) 9: 300-307
© 2003 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Use of routinely collected data on psychiatric in-patient care

Gyles Glover

Gyles Glover is Professor of Public Mental Health at the University of Durham (Centre for Public Mental Health, Elvet Riverside II, New Elvet, Durham DH1 3JT, UK. E-mail: Gyles.Glover{at}durham.ac.uk). He has worked extensively at the Department of Health and, at the time that this work was undertaken, he was partly funded by the Department. He has researched routine data sources describing mental health services and their activity. He is responsible for the annual mental health services mapping exercises in England and designed the new Mental Health Minimum Data Set, which came into full operation from April 2003.

Since the start of the National Health Service, data have been collected on admissions to psychiatric in-patient units, first as the Mental Health Enquiry, then as part of Hospital Episode Statistics. Some details have changed but many have stayed remarkably consistent. Published literature on the wide range of research and policy work undertaken using this data source is reviewed. Early work was central to the government’s deinstitutionalisation policy in the early 1960s. Subsequent studies cover a wide range of epidemiological and health services research issues. A new statistical base, the Mental Health Minimum Data Set, covering individuals receiving all types of health care is currently being set up. This will supplement (but not replace) admission statistics.




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