Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: December 2023, MHSDS: November 2023
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Announcement of a delay to the February '24 publication!
Unfortunately we are having to delay the Learning Disability Services Monthly Publication which is due to be published on Thursday 15th February. We have found issues to some processing which has resulted in missing data in the publication outputs and are currently looking to resolve these with urgency. Until the issue is fixed we do not have an estimated date as to when we can issue the publication. NHS England apologise for any inconvenience caused by this delay and are working hard to issue this publication as soon as we can. the publication affected is the below:
12 February 2024 15:00 PM
Changing the submission windows for the Mental Health Services Data
To provide more timely statistics in the Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics and Learning Disability Services publication series, from October 2023 activity, revised submission windows have been introduced to support a move to reporting performance data in the month following activity. Editions of the series from this one onwards are affected by this change, and each publication page will contain data relating to one month only.
The September 2023 performance publication contains all data relating to the reporting period in it.
The October 2023 performance publication does likewise with the exception of restraints data. This is because the restraints data is being published in the second month following the activity. Providers have indicated that there is often some delay until the restraints data is available for them to submit. As a result, the timeliness with which NHS England receives restraints does not currently support 'first cut' reporting, although it may do in the future should timeliness improve.
The October 2023 publication will have ‘second cut’ restraints data added to it on 18th January 2024. We will also publish November 2023 data on this day, again omitting the ‘first cut’ restraints data (assuming timeliness is still an issue), ensuring it is added in February 2024 once 'second cut' restraints data is available.
For more information on the submission windows for MHSDS and how they are changing please see the below link:
Changing the submission windows for the Mental Health Services Data - NHS Digital
18 January 2024 09:30 AM
The Master Provider and Site List in Assuring Transformation
From October 2023 a Master Provider and Site List (MPSL) has been developed for mental health inpatient services for people with a learning disability and autistic people. This MPSL has been incorporated into Assuring Transformation on the Clinical Audit Platform (CAP) so that data submitters can pick from a much smaller list of inpatient services for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
For more information on the MPSL please click the below link:
Assuring Transformation on the Clinical Audit Platform master provider and site list - NHS Digital
18 January 2024 09:30 AM
Summary findings from MHSDS
MHSDS main findings - November 2023
At the end of November 2023 (based on hospital spells data):
- There were 3,355 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital.
- There were 1,170 admissions and 1,360 discharges. 81% of these were discharged back into the community.
- There were 389,020 referrals¹ for people with LDA.
Of these inpatients:
- 1,040 (31%) had been in hospital for over 2 years.
- There are 930 inpatients with a planned discharge date (28%).
- 310 (9%) had a delayed discharge.
- The largest proportion (27%) were aged between 25-34 (920).
- The lowest proportion (5%) were aged under 18 (175).
- 67% were male (2,240) and 31% were female (1,040).
Findings based on ward stays data:
- There were 3,305 ward stays reported for the end of the period.
- The largest group of inpatients were in a adult mental health ward (1,680, 51%), followed by a learning disabilities ward (860, 26%).
- 2,060 (62%) were in a non-secure setting². 1,175 (36%) were in a secure setting.
- 420 (13%) travelled over 50km from home to get to the hospital for care or treatment.
- 605 patients were restrained at least once.
1 These include all open referrals without a hospital spell associated with them if the inpatient did not need to stay overnight in hospital.
2 Non-secure wards include inpatients in general wards. Secure wards include patients in low, medium and high secure ward settings.
Last edited: 6 March 2024 8:57 am