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: September 2026, MHSDS: August 2026
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Issue with Assuring Transformation data in the Clinical Audit Platform (CAP)
Background
NHS England has identified that due to a technical issue from 16th September onwards, data for a small number of questions in AT on the Clinical Audit Platform (CAP) was not ‘saved’.
Impact on Publication Statistics
The tables impacted within the publication are listed below.
| Table | Section |
| 2.2 | Reason for admission |
| 2.2 | Diagnoses on admission |
| 2.2 | Additional diagnosis since admission |
| 2.3 | Does the patient have someone who supports them to manage their affairs |
Where data was not saved, it is shown in the tables as ‘Not Recorded’. Please note that as AT is a live dataset, data for months prior to September are also impacted where commissioners have updated patient records for these months. The maximum impact is for September 2026 where data for the affected questions for 140 patients was not saved.
Resolution
NHS England has now resolved the issue with AT on CAP so patient records can be updated.
In next month’s publication (November-26), NHS England will publish tables 2.2 and 2.3 with the latest cut of data. This means the months impacted will be refreshed with the latest data including resubmissions made by commissioners.
15 October 2026 09:30 AM
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 September 2026
1,020 (48%) of these have had a total length of stay* over 2 years
135 were admitted or transferred into hospital
30 were transfers from other hospitals and 110 were admissions.
215 were discharged from hospital
170 (79%) of these were discharged back into the community
There were 3,995 people with a learning disability and autistic people in hospital at the end of August 2026
1,225 were admitted to hospital during August 2026
1,295 were discharged from hospital during August 2026
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Last edited: 15 October 2026 4:58 pm