One Step Beyond: What do the latest statistics tell us about inpatient services and people with learning disabilities?
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) have today (22 nd May) published two updates of statistics about people with learning disabilities in inpatient services in England. Both of these updates are based on information from English NHS commissioners, and are re-booted updates in a series previously published by NHS England. The first update contains a range of information on the number of people in learning disability inpatient services from February to March 2015 (it’s not information for a full three months because the responsibility for collecting the information moved from NHS England to HSCIC in January). It’s available here http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB17638/lds-1415q4-rep.pdf The second update contains similar information (in less detail) on a month-by-month basis, reporting on the month of April 2015. This is available here http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB17634/ldsm-apr-15-exec.pdf There is more detail in both of them than I’m going to mention here,...