Latest findings
5.9% of service user deaths were caused by spinal muscular atrophy
Service users’ rate of potentially avoidable deaths was 3.6 times as high as the rate for the general population
Rates of potentially avoidable deaths for male service users was 1.5 times as high as the rate for females
Most (95%) NDA service users were aged under 65, with an average age of 39
Around three-quarters (77%) of service users aged 15 and over who were in the labour force were unemployed.
In 2018-19, about 230,000 people used disability support services under the National Disability Agreement (NDA)