Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: July 2024, MHSDS: June 2024
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Error affecting Table 4.6
An error affecting the “Patients with planned transfer/discharge date of which authority is aware” data by age and patient category within table 4.6 has been identified. This data did not correctly reflect the change to this question in AT v4 from 1 April 2024 and has been withdrawn as a result
The total number of patients with planned transfer/discharge date of which authority is aware is available in table 3.2 and is unaffected by the error which affected table 4.6.
The affected section of table 4.6 has been reinstated from the January 2025 publication (December 2024 data) onwards.
16 January 2025 09:30 AM
Changes to AT dataset from April 2024
Significant changes were made to the AT dataset (v4.0) from 2 April 2024. Some of these changes impacted on the breakdowns available in the AT data tables and these have been footnoted where relevant.
Full details about these changes can be found within the current release of the AT information standard.
15 August 2024 09:30 AM
Decommissioning of AT and MHSDS comparators file
Up until the edition of the Learning Disability Services publication released in April 2024, a comparators file showing the headcounts of inpatients across AT and MHSDS for each provider, as well as the headcount at England level, was included. We have decommissioned this file from the May 2024 release onwards to streamline our processes as key figures can be calculated using the data files we routinely publish as part of the Learning Disabilities and Autism publication series.
Full details are available within the Data Quality - MHSDS page under 'Accuracy and reliability'.
15 August 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 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 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.
Restraints data for MHSDS June 2024 was added to the 'Learning disability services monthly statistics MHSDS datasets' page on 19th September 2024.
This is available within Tables 15-18 of the updated data tables, as well as within the updated csv file.
Key Facts
There were 2,025 learning disabilities and/or autism inpatients at the end of July 2024
1,080 (53%) of these have had a total length of stay* over 2 years
105 were admitted to hospital
65 were first admissions in a year, 25 were readmissions within a year of the previous discharge, and 15 were transfers from other hospitals.
165 were discharged from hospital
140 (83%) of these were discharged back into the community
There were 3,760 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital at the end of June 2024
1,180 were admitted to hospital during June 2024
1,315 were discharged from hospital during June 2024
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