Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-04-20.

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.

Alistair Burt

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.