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This is the fourth annual report on NHS adult specialist mental health services and the people who use them. It covers five years data from Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) with the most recent information being for 2009/10. The publication is accompanied by the largest ever release of NHS mental health service activity data, in accordance with the Government's public data agenda. Further information about data quality was added to the National Reference Tables, Organisation level data tables and the MHMDS Statistics: Data Quality and Methodology document on 4 February 2011.