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3,172
Source documents
229
Foreign documents (outside the UK)
23
Added in the last 7 days
8
Document categories in use
3,901
Organisations
71
Datasets
35,847
Evidence claims
3,032
Metrics
| Source | Kind | Status | Last run | Organisations | Datasets | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMHP website archive (amhp.org.uk, crawl of February 2026)Every page and report of the Association’s own website, as archived in February 2026. Registered as public documents and indexed for search and the assistant. | Archive import | Connected | 12 Sept 2026 | — | — | 1,174 |
| CCNI — Register of Charities Northern Ireland (CSV)The register of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, downloaded daily as the CSV export of its charity search. Charities working in mental health become organisations, classified by the local model. | API | Connected | 26 Oct 2026 | 200 | — | — |
| Charity Commission — Register of Charities (England & Wales)The Charity Commission’s open register of charities in England and Wales, downloaded daily. Charities working in mental health become organisations, classified by the local model. | API | Connected | 26 Oct 2026 | 2,743 | — | — |
| Charity Commission — annual reports and accounts of mental health charitiesTrustees’ annual reports and accounts of mental health charities in England and Wales, downloaded from the public register. | API | Connected | 26 Oct 2026 | — | — | 1,033 |
| GOV.UK — publications in the Mental health topicUK, read daily through its open APIs. The local model keeps only items about mental health provision in the UK, with the issuing department as the organisation. | API | Connected | 26 Oct 2026 | — | — | 559 |
| Hugging Face datasets (mental health, metadata and licence gate)Mental-health datasets on the Hugging Face Hub, registered from their dataset cards with a licence gate. | Hugging Face | Connected | 26 Oct 2026 | — | 68 | 214 |
| NHS website content API (nhs.uk mental health pages)Mental health pages of the NHS website, read through the NHS website content API and refreshed daily when a page changes. Content supplied by the NHS website. | API | Connected | 26 Oct 2026 | — | — | 162 |
| NICE syndication API (guidance on mental health)Published NICE guidance on mental health, read through the NICE syndication API. Switched on once NICE issues a key under its syndication licence. | API | Not connected | Not yet | — | — | — |
| OSCR — Scottish Charity Register (CSV)The Scottish Charity Register, downloaded daily from OSCR. Charities working in mental health become organisations, classified by the local model. | API | Connected | 26 Oct 2026 | 867 | — | — |
| legislation.gov.uk — mental health and mental capacity legislationuk, read through its open feed. Each Act becomes a document, with its explanatory notes as a second document when published. | API | Connected | 26 Oct 2026 | — | — | 30 |
Sources are connectors run by the observatory’s agents. Charity registers yield organisations, dataset hubs yield datasets, publication feeds yield documents; documents uploaded by administrators are counted separately.
| Relevance | England & Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland | Other bodies | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core — mental health is the main purpose | 1,748 | 546 | 16 | — | 2,310 |
| Related — one of several purposes | 987 | 321 | 184 | — | 1,492 |
| Incidental — mentioned in passing | 26 | — | 54 | — | 80 |
| Unclassified — public bodies, legislatures, the registry | 8 | — | — | 91 | 99 |
| Active in total | 2,769 | 867 | 254 | 91 | 3,981 |
Charities come from the registers of England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; the relevance is judged by the observatory’s local model from each register entry. The list below and the counts elsewhere on the site leave out Incidental organisations unless you ask for them.
339 documents published before 2017 are not shown.
35,847
Evidence claims
3,032
Metrics
12
Claim families
0
Topics
143
Page views, last 30 days
24
Visitors, last 30 days
7
Page views today
4
Registered users
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4
Registered users
4
Administrators
0
AMHP members
0
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