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Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities Experimental Statistics 2020 to 2021

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

Data Coverage

Data on people with and without learning disabilities was collected from an average of 58% of GP practices in England for the years 2016-17 to 2020-21, to identify potential differences in treatment, health status and outcomes of people with learning disabilities compared to the rest of the population.


Patient coverage

56.0% of patients registered in England in 2020-21 were included in this publication compared to 60.1% in 2016-17.

Fig 1: Percentage of patients included in this publication by CCG, 2020-21

Prevalence of patients with a learning disability

Overall, 0.5% (170,894) of the patients included in this publication were listed on their GP practices Learning Disabilities Register in 2020-21.



Last edited: 9 March 2023 1:59 pm