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Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities Experimental Statistics 2019 to 2020

Experimental statistics, Other reports and statistics, Official statistics in development

Data Coverage

Data on people with and without learning disabilities was collected from 56.2% to 60.3% of GP practices in England for the years 2015-16 to 2019-20, to identify potential differences in treatment, health status and outcomes of people with learning disabilities compared to the rest of the population.


Patient coverage

56.6% of patients registered in England in 2019-20 were included in this publication compared to 53.9% for 2015-16.


Prevalence of patients with a learning disability

Overall, 0.5% (161,974) of the patients included in this publication were listed on their GP practices Learning Disabilities Register in 2019-20.



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