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Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: January 2024, MHSDS: December 2023

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

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Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: January 2024, MHSDS: December 2023


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

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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

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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.


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 2,035 learning disabilities and/or autism inpatients at the end of January 2024

1,065 (52%) of these have had a total length of stay* over 2 years.

*Total length of stay is the time since the date of first admission to any hospital as part of this continuous period of inpatient care.

115 were admitted to hospital

60 were first admissions in a year, 25 were readmissions within a year of the previous discharge, and 30 were transfers from other hospitals.

(Source: AT dataset)

180 were discharged from hospital

135 (75%) of these were discharged back into the community

(Source: AT dataset)

There were 3,405 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital at the end of December 2023.

(Source: MHSDS)

1,220 were admitted to hospital during December 2023

(Source: MHSDS)

1,295 were discharged from hospital during December 2023.

(Source: MHSDS)




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