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In her first blogpost as the new NHS England Director of Transformation – Learning Disabilities (see https://www.england.nhs.uk/learningdisabilities/2016/04/19/julie-higgins-2/ ), Dr Julie Higgins reported that the number of people in specialist learning disability inpatient units has started to fall, apparently from 2,795 people in March 2015 to 2,615 people in March 2016 (a reduction of 6.4%). Obviously, this is an abiding preoccupation of the Transforming Care programme, and a question which I’ve returned to in this blog roughly every 6 months to check in on what’s happening. Is the tide really beginning to turn? Trying to answer this simple question is surprisingly difficult, for the reasons I outlined here 6 months ago ( http://chrishatton.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/impatient-inpatient.html ). Basically, the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) collect information at the end of every month from commissioners of these services (at the last count there were 219 possible com...

The 2015 Learning Disability Census From the Learning Disability Census 2015 (weblink here http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/2021/Website-Search?productid=20487&q=learning+disability+census+2015&sort=Relevance&size=10&page=1&area=both#top ). This is run by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. As of 30 th September 2015, in total there were exactly 3,000 people in specialist learning disability inpatient services. Total number of children aged under 18 in learning disability inpatient services: ·         2015:      165 children             2014:      160 children 2013:      160 children Main treatment reason for needing inpatient care: ·         Need inpatient care:                     130 children (75 mental illness; 55 behavioural ...