Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, Outpatients and Accident and Emergency Data - April 2016 to January 2017

Monthly HES data for Admitted Patient Care:

In the year from February 2016 to January 2017 there were:

• 19.6 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 59.8 per cent (11.7 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 7.1 million of which were day cases.

• 16.5 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 5.9 million were emergency admissions.

Monthly HES data for Outpatients:

In the year from February 2016 to January 2017 there were:

• 117.0 million outpatient appointments made, with 92.6 million (79.1 per cent) of these attended by the patient.

• 7.9 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 6.7 per cent of all appointments.

Monthly HES data for Accident & Emergency:

In the year from February 2016 to January 2017 there were:

• 21.0 million A&E attendances recorded in A&E HES of which 4.3 million (20.2 per cent) resulted in admission to hospital for admitted patient care. 4.1 million (19.6 per cent) resulted in a GP follow up, and 7.8 million (37.0 per cent) were discharged with no follow up.

Admitted Patient Care data completeness:

The variation from the previous months' data is more pronounced when considering clinical (procedures and diagnoses) coverage. 8. 2per cent more procedures and 10.1 per cent more diagnoses were coded in the HES data submitted to SUS (Month 10) - the extract used for this publication - compared to the HES data submitted to SUS by (Month 9) - the extract used for the previous publication. We accordingly recommend extra caution using clinical codes for the most recent months data.