Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: August 2025, MHSDS: July 2025
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Learning Disability Services Statistics re-naming consultation
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18 September 2025 09:30 AM
Summary
Latest monthly statistics on people with a learning disability and autistic people in inpatient services from the Assuring Transformation (AT) collection and Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS).
Data on inpatients with learning disabilities and/or autism are being collected both within the AT collection and MHSDS. There are differences in the inpatient figures between the AT and MHSDS data sets and work has been ongoing to better understand these. LDA data from MHSDS are experimental statistics, however, while impacts from the cyber incident are still present they will be considered to be management information.
From April 2024, LDA MHSDS data has been collected under MHSDS version 6.
From 1 July 2022, Integrated Care Boards were established within Integrated Care Systems and replaced Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs). Clinical Commissioning Groups have been replaced by sub-Integrated Care Boards. Data for the AT collection is now submitted by sub-Integrated Care Boards. This has resulted in some renaming within tables and the inclusion of a new Table 5.1b with a patient breakdown by submitting organisation. Patients by originating organisation and commissioning type are still available in Table 5.1a. Data in the tables are now presented by the current organisational structures. Old organisational structures have been mapped to new structures in any time series.
Key Facts
There were 2,025 people with a learning disability and autistic people in inpatient services at the end of August 2025
1,010 (50%) of these have had a total length of stay* over 2 years
100 were admitted to hospital
50 were first admissions in a year, 30 were readmissions within a year of the previous discharge, and 20 were transfers from other hospitals
145 were discharged from hospital
115 (80%) of these were discharged back into the community
There were 3,995 people with a learning disability and autistic people in hospital at the end of July 2025
1,580 were admitted to hospital during July 2025
1,710 were discharged from hospital during July 2025
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