# Access to NHS-funded mental-health services

> Adult community, children and young people, and specialist perinatal access measures for the NHS London region.

- Category: NHS
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `nhs-mental-health-access`
- Source: [NHS England](https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-services-monthly-statistics)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-mental-health-access](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-mental-health-access)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/nhs-mental-health-access](https://londongraph.com/data/nhs-mental-health-access)

## Methodology

Selected official MHSDS access measures at NHS London commissioning-region level, using the latest period common to all four. The measures have different definitions and windows: one is a 12-month rolling measure while others count contacts or access in the reporting period. They are shown together as an inventory, not interchangeable totals, and remain provisional.

## Visualisations

- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-mental-health-access): Adult community, children and young people, and specialist perinatal access measures for the NHS London region.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.