Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: April 2023, MHSDS: February 2023 Final
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Cyber Incident Impact on MHSDS data submissions
Unfortunately, a number of providers of MHSDS data have been affected by a recent cyber incident. NHS Digital has actively worked with these providers to understand how best to resolve any data submission issues that may have occurred as a result. We also continue to encourage affected providers to reach out to [email protected] as well as their regional Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) teams.
Please read below for full details:
Although the impact on June and July 2022 monthly data was quite limited, the impact on August through to February 2023 data has been much more substantial. As such, national level breakdowns have been omitted from all outputs that are part of this publication. It was not considered appropriate to publish February 2023 national level data at present, given that these data are not an accurate reflection of activity for that month.
Data at Provider and Local Authority level data are, however, still included within this publication. Comparisons between providers not impacted by the cyber incident are still valid, as are comparisons between February 2023 data and that of previous months for any given non-cyber incident impacted provider.
Although the ‘Experimental Statistics’ designation is stated underneath the publication title above, users should be aware that the designation does not currently apply to this publication in the series. It does, however, remain applicable to all editions up to and including Final July 2022.
Finally, we will continue to monitor this situation with regards to subsequent months’ publications. No changes to submission processes will be introduced while service providers are actively dealing with this issue.
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Appendices - MHSDS
MHSDS LDA provisional and final data
Published data which are labelled as ‘provisional’ are produced from primary monthly submissions, (i.e. the first submission of each month’s data). Provisional statistics are provided in some instances in order to give the timeliest information possible for some key measures. Provisional statistics are indicative and subject to change.
Providers are able to make an optional 'refresh' submission at the time of the next month's primary submission. Statistics which have been published under the label ‘final’ are a combination of both the primary and refresh submissions. Where a refresh submission is made, the primary submission is not used. If a refresh submission is not made then the primary submission is used. This ensures the most complete and latest picture for the MHSDS is made available. Once final statistics are published then any provisional statistics for the same period should no longer be used.
Extracting LDA data from MHSDS
For this publication people are identified in MHSDS as having learning disabilities and/or autistic spectrum disorder (LDA) characteristics within their submitted data for the reporting period (Full details of the method used to identify people with learning disabilities and/or autism are provided in the metadata file). LDA measures are presented for referrals and inpatient activity, in data tables and a CSV file.
These measures show the volumes of patients accessing services throughout the month. This is summarised into five types of measurements:
- Open referrals/inpatients accessing services at the start of the reporting period
- New referrals/ admissions during the month
- Referrals closing/ discharges during the month
- Referrals opening and closing/ inpatients admitted and discharged within the month
- Open referrals/ inpatients accessing services at the end of the reporting period
The inpatient data has been created to replicate the measures currently available in the Assuring Transformation publication. It includes LDA patients with ‘a bed’ normally designated for the treatment or care of people with a learning disability or those with ‘a bed’ designated for mental illness treatment or care who have been diagnosed or are understood to have a learning disability and/or autistic spectrum disorder.
We would welcome feedback on both the methodology we have used to identify the cohort of patients, and the reported measures. Please send any comments to [email protected]
Interpreting inpatient statistics
A group of measures about hospital spells and ward stays open at the end of the month can be used to provide a detailed picture of inpatient caseload at National, Provider and CCG of registration or residence level. Each measure has a unique identifier (referenced in the metadata file), to ensure that users know what is represented by each measure.
This national picture is incomplete without full submissions from all providers of inpatient services and gaps in the provision of information from independent sector providers will also affect the figures at subnational level to varying degrees. See the data quality section of this report for more details. These are experimental statistics and should be used with caution, using all the other available information about data quality to aid interpretation.
Statistical disclosure control
To prevent the release of disclosive information, for the majority of statistics within this publication any numbers less than five (including zero) are replaced by a “*” symbol. Please note for tables 15-18 of the data tables, this also denotes where a submission has been made but data in the relevant table has not been provided. All other numbers are rounded to the nearest five. Calculated values in the data files are based on unrounded numbers but rounded to the nearest whole percent to prevent backward calculation. Where a value is suppressed, the corresponding percentage is also suppressed. This approach prevents identification of a person through cross referencing different publications.
In line with the NHS Anonymisation Standard, since the total population of inpatients identified as having a learning disability and/or autism is less than 10,000, this disclosure control has been applied to national figures as well as sub-national figures.
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