the incompleteness of registration of compulsory admissions and the legal status of referrals are two particular concerns especially given that available data suggests that there are significant regional differences in both the marked increase in reporting of waiting times data is encouraging and similar improvements for other indicators are most desirous for example measurement of restraint physical and chemical potentially a key measure for quality for mental health care is included in a paper protocol must be reported to a supervisory board on a monthly basis and should be reported nationally at present this national data collection is not operational and only an estimated of all reports of measures of restraint are collected