Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: March 2025, MHSDS: February 2025
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Gender code issue affecting tables 2.1 and 4.3
NHS England has identified an issue affecting the ‘Gender identity’ breakdown forming part of Table 2.1 in the LDA monthly statistics from AT-Data tables. The issue also affects the ‘Gender’ breakdown which is part of Table 4.3.
These breakdowns have been temporarily removed from the respective tables, as well as from the AT csv file while we investigate the issue.
The ‘Gender (v3)’ breakdown within Table 2.1 is unaffected, however this breakdown only presents data up to March 2024, just prior to the introduction of AT v4 in April 2024.
NHS England apologies for any inconvenience caused.
17 April 2025 09:30 AM
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 onwards, 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.
17 April 2025 09:30 AM
Summary findings from MHSDS
MHSDS main findings - February 2025
At the end of February 2025 (based on hospital spells data):
- There were 3,945 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital.
- There were 1,205 admissions and 1,325 discharges. 79% of these were discharged back into the community.
- There were 445,510 referrals¹ for people with LDA.
Of these inpatients:
- 1,185 (30%) had been in hospital for over 2 years.
- There are 1,360 inpatients with a planned discharge date (35%).
- 340 (9%) had a delayed discharge.
- The largest proportion (28%) were aged between 25-34 (1,100).
- The lowest proportion (5%) were aged under 18 (195).
- 66% were male (2,595) and 31% were female (1,215).
Findings based on ward stays data:
- There were 3,895 ward stays reported for the end of the period.
- The largest group of inpatients were in an adult mental health ward (2,250, 58%), followed by a learning disabilities ward (810, 21%).
- 2,395 (61%) were in a non-secure setting². 1,320 (34%) were in a secure setting.
- 540 (14%) travelled over 50km from home to get to the hospital for care or treatment.
- 765 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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