Mental Health Minimum Data Set Overview
The Mental Health Minimum Data Set concerns adult PATIENTS (including elderly) who receive care in NHS specialist mental health services. This care is delivered within a Adult Mental Health Care Spell. For some PATIENTS, care will comprise a small number of Out-Patient Appointments over a few weeks. For others, it may extend over many years and include hospital, community, out-patient and day care attendances which may commonly overlap.
The Mental Health Minimum Data Set is assembled and produced for a defined period of time known as the REPORTING PERIOD (which may be monthly, quarterly or annually) and comprises a data set record for each Adult Mental Health Care Spell which occurs wholly or partially within the REPORTING PERIOD.