Mental healthcare

Mental Healthcare (MH) is a subgroup of indicators within the HCQO database and provides data on the quality of mental healthcare. The database includes indicators on deaths from suicide among patients discharged with a mental disorder, and excess mortality among people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Suicide rates reflect the quality of follow-up and continuity of care after discharge, while excess mortality captures overall health outcomes among people who had lived with severe mental illness compared to the general population. Indicators are age- and sex-standardised.

For further information, please consult:

• The HCQO Definitions document provides indicator definitions and calculation methodologies of HCQO indicators


• The Sources and Methods surveys on Mental Healthcare (MH) and Hospital Data provide detailed country-specific information


• The OECD’s Health System Performance Assessment (HSPA) Framework outlines how HCQO indicators relate to the OECD’s HSPA domains of Access, Quality and People’s needs and preferences