As part of an educational initiative to support frontline staff to better understand the importance of accurately capturing and coding patient episodes, we reviewed freely available data from HESonline.1 2 We found some interesting statistics. On average, 1600 adults aged over 30 apparently attend outpatient child and adolescent psychiatry services in England each year (figure⇓). Indeed, the number of adults attending outpatient paediatric services since 2003 has increased …