Get monthly metadata for NHS Talking Therapies measures

Gets the definitions, derivations, and construction notes for each reported measure.

Usage

get_metadata_monthly(periods = NULL, use_cache = TRUE, version = NULL)

Arguments

periods

Character vector, specifying periods (e.g., "2025-09", "2025-08"). If NULL (default), returns all available monthly periods

use_cache

Logical, specifying whether to use cached data if available. Default TRUE.

version

Character, specifying a pinned data version (e.g., "0.3.0"). If NULL (default), the latest version is used. See available_versions().

Value

Tibble with metadata for each measure

References

NHS England. NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors

NHS England. NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors: Metadata (monthly)

NHS England. NHS Talking Therapies Data Quality Note

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
metadata <- get_metadata_monthly()
} # }