Health Services: Learning Disability
(asked on 1st November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) adults (b) children with learning disabilities or autism have been admitted to assessment and treatment units in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the breakdown of inpatients with learning disabilities and/ or autism admitted to acute admission beds within specialised learning disability units by year since 2015*.
Year | Learning disability | Autism | Learning disability and autism | |||
Under 18 | 18 and over | Under 18 | 18 and over | Under 18 | 18 and over | |
2015 | 10 | 410 | 15 | 35 | 10 | 210 |
2016 | 15 | 350 | 30 | 45 | 5 | 195 |
2017 | 10 | 270 | 40 | 35 | 10 | 190 |
2018 | 10 | 145 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 115 |
Notes:
*NHS Digital does not hold any data prior to February 2015 for the Assuring Transformation dataset, therefore this data covers the period February 2015 to September 2018. The definition of 'acute admission beds within specialised learning disability units' provides a proxy for assessment and treatment units.
The number of data submitters varies month-on-month. If a provider regularly submits data and then doesn’t submit for a given month, this can have a significant impact on the figures. Therefore, caution should be taken when interpreting the data.