Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: November 2023, MHSDS: September 2023 & October 2023
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
The Master Provider and Site List in Assuring Transformation
From October 2023 a Master Provider and Site List (MPSL) has been developed for mental health inpatient services for people with a learning disability and autistic people. This MPSL has been incorporated into Assuring Transformation on the Clinical Audit Platform (CAP) so that data submitters can pick from a much smaller list of inpatient services for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
For more information on the MPSL please click the below link:
Assuring Transformation on the Clinical Audit Platform master provider and site list - NHS Digital
1 October 2023 00:00 AM
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.
The September 2023 performance publication contains all data relating to the reporting period in it.
The October 2023 performance publication does likewise with the exception of restraints data. This is because the restraints data is being published in the second month following the activity. Providers have indicated that there is often some delay until the restraints data is available for them to submit. As a result, the timeliness with which NHS England receives restraints does not currently support 'first cut' reporting, although it may do in the future should timeliness improve.
The October 2023 publication will have ‘second cut’ restraints data added to it on 18th January 2024. We will also publish November 2023 data on this day, again omitting the ‘first cut’ restraints data (assuming timeliness is still an issue), ensuring it is added in February 2024 once 'second cut' restraints data is available.
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
20 December 2023 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.
Highlights
Methodological Change
From the July 2022 publication onwards, the methodology used within the restrictive interventions measures will include the changes described in the Restrictive Intervention Statistics Methodological change paper.
Key Facts
There were 2,035 learning disabilities and/or autism inpatients at the end of November 2023.
1,095 (54%) of these have had a total length of stay* over 2 years.
105 were admitted to hospital
55 were first admissions in a year, 25 were readmissions within a year of the previous discharge, and 20 were transfers from other hospitals.
160 were discharged from hospital
125 (76%) of these were discharged back into the community
There were 3,445 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital at the end of September 2023.
1,205 were admitted to hospital during September 2023
1,285 were discharged from hospital during September 2023.
There were 3,400 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital at the end of October 2023.
1,135 were admitted to hospital during October 2023
1,305 were discharged from hospital during October 2023.
Data Sets
Resources
Last edited: 20 December 2023 9:31 am