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Written question asked by Baroness Berger (Labour) on Wednesday, 20 April 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 25 April 2016 (named day). It was answered by Alistair Burt (Conservative) on Monday, 25 April 2016 on behalf of the Department of Health.


Mental Health Services

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to collect data from private sector providers of NHS mental health services.

Answer

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is responsible for the Mental Health Services Data Set which is a patient level, output based, secondary uses dataset which will deliver robust comprehensive, nationally consistent and comparable person based information for children, young people and adults who are in contact with mental health services.

Data submission is mandatory for all instances of care including from independent providers that are wholly or partially funded by the National Health Service.

The Department is also working with the HSCIC and other health system partners to improve data submissions from independent providers.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
34834
Session
2015-16
Subjects
Databases Private sector NHS Mental health services
Link
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