Learning Disability: Care Homes
(asked on 24th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people with learning disabilities whose care is paid for by the NHS are being cared for in facilities owned by private companies.
The Assuring Transformation (AT) dataset provides data on the numbers of people with learning disability and/or autism admitted and discharged from mental health hospitals each month. The following table shows patient numbers by provider type, with data taken from the most recent AT publication which uses December 2018 data.
Patients by provider type as of December 2018
| Number of patients | % of patients |
NHS Providers | 1,130 | 49% |
Independent Providers | 1,165 | 51% |
Source: Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics - Data from the Assuring Transformation Collection, December 2018 (NHS Digital)