Hospitals: Learning Disability
(asked on 2nd March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people with learning disabilities who remained in long-stay hospitals for over 12 months in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 7th March 2016
The information requested is only available from 2013. The following table shows the number of patients with learning disabilities by length of stay with their current healthcare provider on 30 September 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Date | 30 September 2013 | 30 September 2014 | 30 September 2015 |
Length of stay over one year | 1,949 | 1,920 | 1,810 |