About the dataset
Now in its 15th year, the NHS Benchmarking Network's Children and Young People's Mental Health benchmarking dataset provides a comprehensive, UK-wide picture of specialist mental health service provision.
The dataset brings together key performance, activity, workforce and financial metrics, offering valuable insights into service delivery, variation and best practice. The findings support service improvement, strategic planning and informed decision-making at local, regional and national levels.
All data and reporting are aligned with current national (individual UK nations) and UK-wide service, policy and practice priorities (outlined below). While health policy and service models vary across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, there is strong alignment around shared priorities for delivering safe, effective, high-quality mental health care for children and young people.
What participants can see
Pressures in their department, against UK peers
Long waits
Time in department up to 24 hours, and decision to admit to admission.
Handover and corridor care
Ambulance handover times and how often corridor care is used.
Workforce
Workforce gaps, sickness and absence rates, and turnover rates.
Surveys run in the data collection
Staff survey: provides a greater understanding of the experience of those working within the service.
Meet the team
Kaitlyn Biggs
Delivery Manager, Emergency Care Dataset
Key themes
Productivity
Patient flow
Workforce efficiency
Staffing costs
Demand and capacity
Patient volumes
Acuity
Service utilisation
Treatment space availability
Health inequalities
Racial inequalities
Learning disability inequality
Services covered
Type 1 and 2 EDs
Acute medical units (AMU)
Same-day emergency care (SDEC)
Type 3 and 4 centres
"ED has utilised data from the previous benchmarking reports to inform not only service improvement ideas such as improving handover delays, but also the data such as the length of time spent in ED, supports the development of business cases when required."
Ben Thompson-Jones
Directorate Manager, Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
15th year
of emergency care benchmarking, running since 2012
UK-wide
comparison with peer emergency care services