Factors Affecting Psychiatric Bed Utilisation by People With Intellectual Disabilities: A Time Series Analysis Using the English National Mental Health Services Data Set.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2015, the Building the Right Support programme was launched for England in an attempt to reduce the number of psychiatric inpatients with intellectual disabilities and/or autism by 35%-50%. This target, and subsequent targets, were missed, and for 2025-2026, the government further committed to reducing numbers by 10%. Considering these continued targets, we aimed to investigate psychiatric bed utilisation over time, and to further understand factors that may influence psychiatric admissions and discharges of people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism, by utilising time series modelling with national English data to explore the relationship between a set of chosen sociodemographic, clinical and service-related predictor variables and the following outcome vari

SUBMITTER: Nisar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12576377 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature