Publication, Part of Statistics on people with a learning disability and autistic people in mental health hospitals
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics, AT: June 2025, MHSDS: May 2025
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
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.
17 July 2025 09:30 AM
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
Learning Disability Services Statistics re-naming consultation
NHS England is currently in the process of re-naming the Learning Disability Services Statistics monthly publication. As part of this, we would like to collect feedback from stakeholders. This consultation has now closed. Contact [email protected] with any feedback.
4 August 2025 11:25 AM
Issue with legal status breakdowns in historical publications
Please note that an issue has been identified within the legal status breakdown within tables 2.3, 4.1 and 4.2. These breakdowns relate to whether the patient was detained under the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act or other acts.
Impact
NHS England has completed an impact assessment which showed that previously the number of patients who were subject to the MHA was being overreported by 1 and 2% of total patients. In the most recent 12 months this was closer to 1% - the median across all time periods reported was 1.1% and 25 patients.
Most of these patients were detained under the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and other acts but were reported as MHA Other. Within the specific parts of the MHA, a small number of patients were reported under MHA Other but should have been reported under Part II, correcting the MHA Part II figures has largely not made a difference to the rounded figures. All figures for Part III with and without restrictions were reported correctly.
Historical Publication
This issue has been resolved in time for the May-26 publication but impacts historical publications using data from the Assuring Transformation dataset.
NHS England will not republish historical files with updated data but caution is advised in using these breakdowns and users should use the publications from the May-26 publication onwards for correct counts of patients detained under specific sections of the MHA. Statistics on people with a learning disability and autistic people in mental health hospitals, AT: May 2026, MHSDS: April 2026 - NHS England Digital
NHS England apologises for any inconvenience caused.
22 June 2026 11:20 AM
Summary
Latest monthly statistics on people with a learning disability and autistic people in inpatient services 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 April 2024, LDA MHSDS data has been collected under MHSDS version 6.
From 1 July 2022, Integrated Care Boards were established within Integrated Care Systems and replaced Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (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.
Key Facts
There were 2,040 people with a learning disability and autistic people in inpatient services at the end of June 2025
1,010 (49%) of these have had a total length of stay* over 2 years
105 were admitted to hospital
55 were first admissions in a year, 30 were readmissions within a year of the previous discharge, and 20 were transfers from other hospitals
145 were discharged from hospital
115 (79%) of these were discharged back into the community
There were 3,715 people with a learning disability and autistic people in hospital at the end of May 2025
1,370 were admitted to hospital during May 2025
1,465 were discharged from hospital during May 2025
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