Percentage of emergency admissions to any hospital in England occurring within 30 days of the last, previous discharge from hospital after admission: indirectly standardised by age, sex, method of admission and diagnosis/procedure.
The indicator is broken down into the following demographic groups for reporting:
● All years and female only, male only and both male and female (persons).
● <16 years and female only, male only and both male and female (persons).
● 16+ years and female only, male only and both male and female (persons)
● 16-74 years and female only, male only and both male and female (persons)
● 75+ years and female only, male only and both male and female (persons)
Results for each of these groups are also split by the following geographical and demographic breakdowns:
● Local authority of residence.
● Region.
● Area classification.
● NHS and private providers.
● NHS England regions.
● Deprivation (Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) Quintiles, 2019).
● Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP) & Integrated Care Boards (ICB) from 2016/17.
● Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) & sub-Integrated Care Boards (sub-ICB).
● Treatment Functions.
All annual trends are indirectly standardised against 2014/15.