Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: February 2025, MHSDS: January 2025
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Changes to reporting for patients on extended leave under Section 17 of the Mental Health Act
With effect from the publication on 20 February 2025 onwards, patients who are recorded in Assuring Transformation as on extended leave under Section 17 (S17) of the Mental Health Act due to specific court judgments (MM / PJ judgments) will be excluded from the inpatient counts reported in the publication.
A change to the guidance for data submitters on recording such patients in the data was issued in November 2024. Where historic data in the data tables is refreshed each month to account for updates by data submitters, patients will be excluded from the counts from each time point from 30 November 2024 onwards.
20 March 2025 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 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 Clinical Commissioning Groups have been replaced by sub-Integrated Care Boards.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 2,055 learning disabilities and/or autism inpatients at the end of February 2025
1,030 (50%) of these have had a total length of stay* over 2 years
95 were admitted to hospital
50 were first admissions in a year, 20 were readmissions within a year of the previous discharge, and 25 were transfers from other hospitals.
145 were discharged from hospital
115 (80%) of these were discharged back into the community
There were 3,665 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital at the end of January 2025
1,225 were admitted to hospital during January 2025
1,375 were discharged from hospital during January 2025
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