Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: January 2025, MHSDS: December 2024
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, 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 February 2025 09:30 AM
Summary findings from MHSDS
MHSDS main findings - December 2024
At the end of December 2024 (based on hospital spells data):
- There were 3,790 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital.
- There were 1,160 admissions and 1,320 discharges. 77% of these were discharged back into the community.
- There were 428,565 referrals¹ for people with LDA.
Of these inpatients:
- 1,175 (31%) had been in hospital for over 2 years.
- There are 1,245 inpatients with a planned discharge date (33%).
- 300 (8%) had a delayed discharge.
- The largest proportion (27%) were aged between 25-34 (1,030).
- The lowest proportion (5%) were aged under 18 (185).
- 68% were male (2,560) and 32% were female (1,210).
Findings based on ward stays data:
- There were 3,745 ward stays reported for the end of the period.
- The largest group of inpatients were in an adult mental health ward (2,100, 56%), followed by a learning disabilities ward (795, 21%).
- 2,180 (58%) were in a non-secure setting². 1,265 (34%) were in a secure setting.
- 500 (13%) travelled over 50km from home to get to the hospital for care or treatment.
- 770 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.
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