HSE Performance Reports — Mental Health Services

Data Collection Type
National Performance and activity reports
Organisation

HSE – Business Information Unit - Community Health Care.

Year established

2009

Statement of purpose

To monitor and measure provision of services within the Mental Health Services and report on activity against the National Service Plan.

Coverage (geographical and temporal)

National, CHO, LHO, Mental Health Team Level and Service Providers.

Data collection commenced 2009 and is ongoing.

Description/Summary

The Business Information Unit -Community Health Care - collates the HSE’s Performance Reports, which provide an overall analysis of key performance data from Mental Health Services. The activity data reported is based on Performance Activity and Key Performance Indicators outlined in the National Service Plan and the HSE Operational Plans.

The Performance Report is overseen by the National Planning Oversight Group (NPOG), led by the Chief Operations Officer on behalf of the CEO. NPOG monitors performance against planned activity, as outlined in the National Service Plan, and highlights areas for improvement. A Management Data Report is also produced each month which provides more detailed data on the Metrics covered in the Performance Report.

Items such community adult mental health, psychiatry of later life, child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS).
Examples of an indicator include:

- number of referrals (including re-referred) received by General Adult Community Mental Health Team
- %. of new (including re-referred) Psychiatry of Later Life Community Mental Health Team cases offered appointment and DNA in the current month
- % of urgent referrals to CAMHS teams responded to within three working days.

Data users

BIU – CHC, CHOs, EMT, HSE Board NPOG, DOH and Service Leads for CHOs.

Data content

Data is collected in aggregate

Age, geographical area determine teams. (DED – Populations based).

Focus on length of time waiting to be seen.

See Metadata;

http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/KPIs/

Data dictionary

N/A.

Equity stratifiers

No.

Data collection methodology

Community Adult Mental Health KPIs collected monthly from 117 teams.

Community CAMHS KPIs collected monthly from 73 Teams.

Psychiatry of Later Life KPIs collected monthly from 32 Teams.

Acute Adult admissions collected quarterly by HRB from 29 units.
CAMHS Day Service from 4 teams. Monthly.

Clinical coding scheme

No.

Size of national collection

278,280 lines of data annually.

Publication frequency

Performance Reports and Management Data Reports are published quarterly and data is presented in these reports.

Accessing data

Performance Reports and Management Data Reports are published and can be located on the HSE website:

http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/performancereports/

Data is published in the HSE Annual Reports.

Data request can also be made.

Data requests are routed through the Care Group/ Service Area as they are the owners of data, the NBIU assist with data requests as required by the Care Group/Service Area.

Open data portal access

No.