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

The percentage of patients with a learning disability, who have a diagnosis of epilepsy and are currently prescribed epilepsy drugs is significantly greater than the percentage of patients without a learning disability, who have a diagnosis of epilepsy and are currently prescribed epilepsy drugs for each year between 2016-17 and 2020-21. Although the percentage of patients with a learning disability, who have a diagnosis of epilepsy and are currently prescribed epilepsy drugs has fallen steadily between 2016-17 (17.2%) and 2020-21 (16.6%), this has remained stable at 0.6% in those without a learning disability, who have a diagnosis of epilepsy and are currently prescribed epilepsy drugs.

The percentage of patients with a learning disability, who also have a diagnosis of ADHD is significantly greater than the percentage of the population who have a diagnosis of ADHD but do not have a learning disability. The percentage of patients with a learning disability, who also have a diagnosis of ADHD has risen steadily between 2016-17 (5.1%) and 2020-21 (7.4%), whilst those without a learning disability, who have a diagnosis of ADHD rose by 0.2 percentage points (0.5% to 0.7%).

Each year between 2016-17 and 2020-21, a significantly larger percentage of patients with a learning disability, who also have a diagnosis of ADHD, and are currently treated with melatonin than the population of patients who have a diagnosis of ADHD and are currently treated with melatonin who don’t have a learning disability.

The percentage of patients with a learning disability, who have also been diagnosed with ADHD and are currently treated with melatonin rose by 1.5 percentage points between 2019-20 (12.5%) and 2020-21 (14.0%); this is over double the percentage point change compared to previous years. The percentage of patients without a learning disability, who also have a diagnosis of ADHD and are currently treated with melatonin has risen by 0.1 percentage points between 2019-20 (8.3%) and 2020-21 (8.4%).