Adults with a serious mental illness have a mortality rate three times as high as the general population, according to data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
The figures from the HSCIC reveal around 13 in every 1,000 people aged 18-74 with a serious mental illness died in the financial year 2009/10, compared to about four in 1,000 of the general population between these ages.
Though previous research has looked at this area this is the first time such figures have been calculated by linking mortality data to the Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) – the dataset that contains record-level data about NHS services delivered to over one million people with serious mental health problems.
The statistics form one of the new measures as part of the NHS Outcomes Framework. More can be found in the NHS Outcomes Framework section on the HSCIC website https://indicators.ic.nhs.uk.
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