Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: February 2024, MHSDS: January 2024
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Error affecting Key Facts
An error affecting the final three key facts below, originally published on 21st March 2024. has been identified.
This has now been resolved. NHS England apologies for any inconvenience caused.
11 April 2024 09:07 AM
Error affecting LDA comparison of monthly statistics between MHSDS and AT - January 2024 excel file
An error affecting the 'LDA comparison of monthly statistics between MHSDS and AT - January 2024' excel file originally published on 21st March 2024 has been identified.
This has now been resolved. Version 2 of the 'LDA comparison of monthly statistics between MHSDS and AT - January 2024' file contains revised data, an is available under 'Resources' within the 'Learning disability services monthly statistics from MHSDS: Data tables' page
NHS England apologies for any inconvenience caused.
8 April 2024 12:56 PM
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
21 March 2024 09:30 AM
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.
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
21 March 2024 09:30 AM
Summary
Latest monthly statistics on Learning Disabilities and Autism (LDA) patients 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 October 2021, LDA MHSDS data has been collected under MHSDS version 5.
A number of comparators are published each month to assess the differences in reporting between the collections. These can be found in the MHSDS datasets section.
From 1 July 2022, Integrated Care Boards were established within Integrated Care Systems data and replaced Sustainability and Transformation Plans (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.
As of 18th April 2024, restraints data for MHSDS January 2024 has been added to the 'Learning disability services monthly statistics from MHSDS: Data tables' page.
This is available within Tables 15-18 of v2 of the Data tables as well as within v2 of the csv file.
Highlights
Methodological Change
From the July 2022 publication onwards, the methodology used within the restrictive interventions measures will include the changes described in the Restrictive Intervention Statistics Methodological change paper.
Key Facts
There were 2,045 learning disabilities and/or autism inpatients at the end of February 2024
1,075 (53%) of these have had a total length of stay* over 2 years.
85 were admitted to hospital
55 were first admissions in a year, 20 were readmissions within a year of the previous discharge, and 10 were transfers from other hospitals.
115 were discharged from hospital
90 (81%) of these were discharged back into the community
There were 3,490 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital at the end of January 2024
1,285 were admitted to hospital during January 2024
1,400 were discharged from hospital during January 2024
Data Sets
Resources
Last edited: 16 April 2024 10:45 am