Mental Health Services: Learning Disability
(asked on 6th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with learning disabilities have been held on mental health wards in each of the last three years.
The table below shows the total number of people with a learning disability and/or autism in mental health wards as reported by the Learning Disability Census.
The number of patients in mental health wards for the each of the last three years by diagnosis | |||||||
England¹ | Number of patients | ||||||
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | ||||
All patients | 635 | 750 | 660 | ||||
Learning disability or autism | |||||||
Learning disability only | 375 | 405 | 330 | ||||
Autism only | 140 | 225 | 240 | ||||
Learning disability and autism | 120 | 120 | 85 | ||||
Data source: Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) Learning Disability Census 2013, 2014, 2015
¹The 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 were receiving inpatient care at the end of the each month since HSCIC began collecting Assuring Transformation data.