Count Me In 2008

Welcome to the Count Me In web site. Here you will find information about the previous Count Me In censi and about the Count Me In 2008 census.

34915 Returns So Far!

Count Me In is an annual census that started in 2005. It is scheduled to happen every year until 2010.

Each year it counts all the in-patients in mental health and learning disability hospitals on one day. It includes all the NHS and independent hospitals in England and Wales.

Count Me In is one of the building blocks of Delivering Race Equality (Department of Health 2005). (see http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4100773 for full details). This 5 year plan aims to tackle the inequalities in access and outcomes for mental health service users from Black and minority ethnic communities. Count Me In aims to provide better information about in-patients and their care so that responsive and appropriate services can be developed and delivered.

Who Is Involved

Delivering Race Equality is being delivered by CSIP (the Care Service Improvement Partnership). See http://www.actiondre.org.uk/ for more details.

In 2008 The Healthcare Commission has overall responsibility for the Census – see www.healthcarecommission.org.uk.

They are supported by the Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC) (see www.mhac.org.uk) and the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) / CSIP. It forms an important element of the Healthcare Commission's continuing information collection programme and it will support the development of standards against which assessment, inspection and monitoring of services can take place.