Publication, Part of Learning Disability Services Statistics
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: October 2023, MHSDS: August 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 publication series, from October 2023 activity, revised submission windows will be introduced to support a move to reporting performance data in the month following activity. Editions of the series from the December 2023 publication onwards will be affected by this change, however this edition of the series is unaffected.
In our December publication we will be publishing the following:
- AT November '23 data
- MHSDS LDA Sept '23 data with restrictive interventions data tables included but no comparators file
- MHSDS LDA Oct '23 data with no restrictive interventions data tables included but will include the comparators file using Oct '23 MHSDS data and latest cut of AT Oct '23 data
For October 2023, this publication will not contain restraints data as the restraints data is being published in the second month following the activity. Therefore the October 2023 publication will have the restraints data added to it on January 18th 2024. On this day we will also publish November 2023 data, again omitting the restraints data initially with it being added in February 2024.
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
1 October 2023 00:00 AM
Summary findings from MHSDS
MHSDS main findings
At the end of August 2023 (based on hospital spells data):
- There were 3,400 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital.
- There were 1,205 admissions and 1,315 discharges. 82% of these were discharged back into the community.
- There were 369,850 referrals¹ for people with LDA.
Of these inpatients:
- 1,070 (32%) had been in hospital for over 2 years.
- There are 710 inpatients with a planned discharge date (21%).
- 235 (7%) had a delayed discharge.
- The largest proportion (28%) were aged between 25-34 (960).
- The lowest proportion (5%) were aged under 18 (185).
- 67% were male (2,295) and 32% were female (1,090).
Findings based on ward stays data:
- There were 3,330 ward stays reported for the end of the period.
- The largest group of inpatients were in a adult mental health ward (1,655, 50%), followed by a learning disabilities ward (915, 28%).
- 2,095 (63%) were in a non-secure setting². 1,170 (35%) were in a secure setting.
- 450 (13%) travelled over 50km from home to get to the hospital for care or treatment.
- 625 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.
Last edited: 16 November 2023 9:31 am