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<p>The NHS Digital Assuring Transformation dataset is used to measure the reduction
in the numbers of children, young people and adults with a learning disability and/or
autism who are inpatients in mental health settings in line with the national plan,
‘Building the Right Support’.</p><p> </p><p>Assuring Transformation is a live data
collection, and the data at the time of publication each month is subject to change
with retrospective updates and additions. Patients may be reported on long after admission,
for example, due to late diagnosis, leading to changes in the baseline count. The
most recent patient count for March 2015, published by NHS Digital for the end of
February 2019 is 2,890. This is the baseline for planned reductions in inpatient numbers
and against which progress in meeting the aims set out in ‘Building the Right Support’
is measured.</p><p> </p><p>The ambition for March 2020 is that we will reduce the
rate of inpatients with a learning disability and/or autism to 18.5 adult inpatients
in clinical commissioned group-commissioned beds per million adult population, and
18.5 adult inpatients in NHS England-commissioned beds per adult million population.</p><p>
</p><p>This will equate to a 35% reduction from March 2015 in the total number of
inpatients. The NHS Long Term Plan commits to going further, with a net 50% reduction
from March 2015 in the number of people with a learning disability, autism or both
in specialist inpatient hospitals, by 2023/24. For every one million adults, there
will be no more than 30 people with a learning disability and/or autism cared for
in an inpatient unit. For children and young people there will be no more than 12
to 15 children with a learning disability, autism or both by 2023/24.</p><p> </p>
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