id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-326869-306jquy3 Stewart, R. Comparison of mental health service activity before and shortly after UK social distancing responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: February-March 2020 2020-09-28 .txt text/plain 3210 151 52 A time series analysis was carried out of daily service-level activity on data from a large mental healthcare provider in southeast London, from 01.02.2020 to 31.03.2020, comparing activity before and after 16.03.2020: i) inpatient admissions, discharges and numbers, ii) contact numbers and daily caseloads (Liaison, Home Treatment Teams, Community Mental Health Teams); iii) numbers of deaths for past and present patients. Taking advantage of a mental healthcare data platform that receives 24-hourly updates from its source electronic records, we sought to describe daily activity in key services for the months of February and March 2020 and to quantify statistically the early changes observed. We present findings from an early extract of data from a large multi-team provider on changes in mental health service provision before and in the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic first wave in the UK, analysing these in relation to the enacting of a national social distancing policy. ./cache/cord-326869-306jquy3.txt ./txt/cord-326869-306jquy3.txt