Publication, Part of Statistics on people with a learning disability and autistic people in mental health hospitals
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: May 2025, MHSDS: April 2025
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Error in adult inpatient rates in Assuring Transformation (AT) Table 5.2
We have identified an error affecting the adult inpatient rates presented in Assuring Transformation (AT) Table 5.2. The error affects each AT reporting period from October 2023 to June 2025 inclusive.
The error arose due to the rate calculation having been performed using ONS mid-year population estimates from the year 2020 rather than 2017. The adult inpatient numbers in this table are unaffected by the error.
The affected rates data has now been redacted from Table 5.2 in each of the affected publications.
Corrected rates for March 2024 and March 2025, the ‘end-of-year’ months, have been published on Supplementary Information here.
NHS England apologises for any inconvenience caused.
8 October 2025 18:00 PM
Restrictive Intervention (AT) Data Quality Report
NHS England have added a data quality report to the publication. The report presents information on the completion of restrictive intervention data by submitting organisations in the Assuring Transformation (AT) data collection. The purpose of the report is to highlight where completion of restrictive intervention data is poorer to improve data quality.
Restrictive intervention data is submitted to the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS) and this is the main source of use of force data for restrictive interventions for patients in contact with Mental Health Services. Data on restrictive interventions for people with a learning disability or autistic people in mental health hospital is included in this publication in the MHSDS data tables.
19 June 2025 09:30 AM
Summary findings from MHSDS
MHSDS main findings - April 2025
At the end of April 2025 (based on hospital spells data):
- There were 3,940 people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic spectrum disorders (LDA) in hospital.
- There were 1,380 admissions and 1,545 discharges. 77% of these were discharged back into the community.
- There were 430,635 referrals¹ for people with LDA.
Of these inpatients:
- 1,175 (30%) had been in hospital for over 2 years.
- There are 1,480 inpatients with a planned discharge date (38%).
- 355 (9%) had a delayed discharge.
- The largest proportion (27%) were aged between 25-34 (1,050).
- The lowest proportion (6%) were aged under 18 (220).
- 67% were male (2,630) and 32% were female (1,255).
Findings based on ward stays data:
- There were 3,885 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 (790, 20%).
- 2,395 (62%) were in a non-secure setting². 1,305 (34%) were in a secure setting.
- 510 (13%) travelled over 50km from home to get to the hospital for care or treatment.
- 870 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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