Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS) Workshop

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The Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS) is a mandatory dataset, which should record all contacts with secondary and specialist mental health services in England. The MHSDS covers services provided in hospitals, outpatient clinics and in the community, where the majority of patients are treated, and covers care for children, young people and adults. Data submission is mandatory for NHS funded care, irrespective of whether the service provider is from the NHS or the independent sector. 

Researchers at the University of York who use MHSDS will introduce participants to the ways they have found to overcome the data challenges described above and will stimulate discussion to determine whether there are alternative ways of analysing the data. We will highlight data quality issues throughout the workshop and discuss their implications. There will be several hands-on sessions using an artificial dataset, where participants will be able to see what the cleaned and re-structured data look like and try some analyses on it. Stata code for the data preparation (not covered in the hands-on sessions) and the analyses will be provided. 

There will also be presentations from people in the health service such as a mental health provider and a mental health commissioner on how the data are collected, quality checked and used.

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