Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: November 2024, MHSDS: October 2024
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Change to Submission Window used for MHSDS Restrictive Intervention Performance Reporting
From October 2024 activity onwards, MHSDS Restrictive Interventions Performance data is reported from submissions made in the month following the activity period, rather than the second month.
As such, there will no longer be a time lag in the reporting of MHSDS Restrictive Interventions data (Tables 15-18) within this publication compared with all other MHSDS data.
19 December 2024 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.
19 December 2024 09:30 AM
Summary findings from MHSDS
MHSDS main findings - October 2024
At the end of October 2024 (based on hospital spells data):
- There were 3,825 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital.
- There were 1,295 admissions and 1,460 discharges. 78% of these were discharged back into the community.
- There were 423,470 referrals¹ for people with LDA.
Of these inpatients:
- 1,155 (30%) had been in hospital for over 2 years.
- There are 1,285 inpatients with a planned discharge date (34%).
- 300 (8%) had a delayed discharge.
- The largest proportion (28%) were aged between 25-34 (1,055).
- The lowest proportion (5%) were aged under 18 (195).
- 67% were male (2,560) and 32% were female (1,240).
Findings based on ward stays data:
- There were 3,770 ward stays reported for the end of the period.
- The largest group of inpatients were in an adult mental health ward (2,145, 57%), followed by a learning disabilities ward (810, 21%).
- 2,290 (61%) were in a non-secure setting². 1,255 (33%) were in a secure setting.
- 480 (13%) travelled over 50km from home to get to the hospital for care or treatment.
- 750 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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