Autism

(asked on 16th July 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 people who have a diagnosis of autism have been in hospital for more than two years by ethnicity.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 19th July 2018

The Assuring Transformation (AT) data collection relates to patients with a diagnosis of learning disabilities and/or autistic spectrum disorder.

The following table contains data taken from our most recent AT publication using May 2018 data, and covers patients who have an open hospital spell at the end of May 2018. The patients do not necessarily have a diagnosis of autism but have answered a question that describes the patient’s condition as autism. The patient’s total length of stay is over two years. This is then split by national ethnic category.

May 2018

Total

Total inpatients described to have autism, with a total length of stay over two years

260

Ethnicity

White

210

British

205

Irish

*

Any other White background

*

Mixed

10

White and Black Caribbean

5

White and Black African

*

White and Asian

*

Any other mixed background

*

Asian or Asian British

*

Indian

*

Pakistani

*

Bangladeshi

*

Any other Asian background

*

Black or Black British

*

Caribbean

*

African

*

Any other Black background

*

Other Ethnic Groups

15

Chinese

*

Any other ethnic group

*

Not Stated

10

Not known

20

Source: Assuring Transformation Collection, NHS Digital

Notes:

The Assuring Transformation collection covers England, but includes patients whose care is commissioned in England and provided elsewhere in the United Kingdom. These figures represent the number of patients who are receiving inpatient care at the end of the month. Data in this table has been updated to include the most up-to-date figures so includes late submissions from commissioners.

Numbers less than five have been replaced by '*' and other values have been rounded to the nearest five to minimise disclosure risks associated with small numbers. It should be noted that rows will therefore not always add up to the total.

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