Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics - AT: July 2021, MHSDS: May 2021 Final
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
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.
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.
Disruption relating to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) would seem to be affecting the quality and coverage of some of our statistics, such as an increase in non-submissions for some datasets. We have also seen some different patterns in the submitted data. For example, fewer patients are being admitted to and discharged from hospital. Therefore, data should be interpreted with care over the COVID-19 period.
Highlights
There were 2,050 learning disabilities and/or autism inpatients at the end of the month
1,165 (57%) of these have had a total length of stay* over 2 years
75 were admitted to hospital
40 were first admissions, 20 were readmissions within a year of the previous discharge, and 15 were transfers from other hospitals
135 were discharged from hospital
110 (81%) of these were discharged back into the community
There were 3,650 learning disabilities and/or autism inpatients at the end of the month
1,010 were admitted to hospital
1,110 were discharged from hospital
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