Publication, Part of Statistics on people with a learning disability and autistic people in mental health hospitals
Statistics on people with a learning disability and autistic people in mental health hospitals, AT: July 2026, MHSDS: June 2026
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Summary
Latest monthly statistics on people with a learning disability and autistic people in inpatient services from the Assuring Transformation (AT) collection and Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS).
Data on inpatients with learning disabilities and/or autism are being collected both within the AT collection and MHSDS. There are differences in the inpatient figures between the AT and MHSDS data sets and work has been ongoing to better understand these. LDA data from MHSDS are experimental statistics, however, while impacts from the cyber incident are still present they will be considered to be management information.
From April 2024, LDA MHSDS data has been collected under MHSDS version 6.
Data in the tables are presented by the current organisational structures. Old organisational structures have been mapped to new structures in any time series.
Key Facts
There were 2,115 people with a learning disability and autistic people in inpatient services at the end of July 2026
1,030 (49%) of these have had a total length of stay* over 2 years
165 were admitted or transferred into hospital
35 were transfers from other hospitals and 130 were admissions.
240 were discharged from hospital
190 (79%) of these were discharged back into the community
There were 3,900 people with a learning disability and autistic people in hospital at the end of June 2026
1,320 were admitted to hospital during June 2026
1,420 were discharged from hospital during June 2026
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Last edited: 20 August 2026 1:40 pm