Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: March 2024, MHSDS: February 2024
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
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
18 April 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 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 Clinical Commissioning Groups have been replaced by sub-Integrated Care Boards.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.
As of 23rd May 2024, restraints data for MHSDS February 2024 has been added to the 'Learning disability services monthly statistics from MHSDS: Data tables' page.
This is available within Tables 15-18 of v2 of the Data tables as well as within v2 of the csv file.
Key Facts
There were 2,045 learning disabilities and/or autism inpatients at the end of March 2024
1,070 (52%) of these have had a total length of stay* over 2 years.
90 were admitted to hospital
50 were first admissions in a year, 20 were readmissions within a year of the previous discharge, and 20 were transfers from other hospitals.
140 were discharged from hospital
110 (79%) of these were discharged back into the community
There were 3,530 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital at the end of February 2024
1,195 were admitted to hospital during February 2024
1,325 were discharged from hospital during February 2024
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Last edited: 13 May 2024 1:01 pm