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Bariatric surgical procedures, 2021/22 (final) and Quarter 1, Quarter 2 2022/23 (provisional) – National Obesity Audit [Management Information]

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Publication Date:
23 Feb 2023
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Regions, Integrated Care Boards, Sub-Integrated Care Boards, Provider, Hospital and Community Health Services
Date Range:
01 Apr 2017 to 30 Sep 2022

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Change to publication csv and dashboard

An issue was identified with the derivations for Length of Stay for the average counts at Regional level (Measure 8.3). This has now been corrected in the CSV file and dashboard.

12 April 2023 00:00 AM

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Summary

This is the third release of data to form part of the National Obesity Audit (NOA). Data on NHS funded bariatric surgical procedures delivered in England, are presented in an interactive dashboard. All data is currently sourced from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS England.

This third release includes updates to the quarterly time series for patients who had a primary bariatric surgical procedure in Q1 or Q2 in 2022/23. It also includes data presented at Sub-Integrated Care Board level, previously reported as Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). All previously publshed annual data for 2017/18 to 2021/22 is also available. See the metadata file for a list of measures published as part of this release.

HES data continued to be submitted by providers throughout the pandemic. Disruption relating to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) would seem to have affected the quality and coverage of some of our statistics, such as an increase in non-submissions for some datasets. We have also seen some different patterns in the submitted data. For example, fewer patients are being admitted to and discharged from hospital. Therefore, data should be interpreted with care over the COVID-19 period. Further information of how elective care including surgery will recover from the impact of COVID-19 is published by NHS England. 

As more data starts to be submitted by other weight management services, the dashboard will develop to provide a comprehensive picture of commissioning, access and outcomes of weight management services across England. Future releases of the dashboard will add data from other sources and with additional functionality. For example, Weight Management Services data submitted to the Community Services Dataset shall be released in later versions. An acknowledgement has been included in the Data Quality Statement to those organisations who have already started submitting this data.

National Obesity Audit Dashboard

This release presents data on bariatric surgical procedures at the following levels:

Hospital provider

Integrated Care Board (ICB)

Sub-Integrated Care Board  

NHS Regional and National levels

 

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Last edited: 28 July 2023 9:50 am