Update 2 March 2023: Following the merger of NHS Digital and NHS England on 1st February 2023 we are reviewing the future presentation of the NHS Outcomes Framework indicators. As part of this review, the annual publication which was due to be released in March 2023 has been delayed. Further announcements about this dataset will be made on this page in due course.
The indicator measures the number of patients who have been admitted to hospital with any cause and die within 90 days of their last discharge from a VTE related event, expressed as a rate per 100,000 adult hospital admissions.
This indicator aims to measure the reduction in deaths from VTE related events by driving efforts to improve the prevention, detection and treatment of VTE before it causes death.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began to have an impact on Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data late in the 2019/20 financial year, which continued into the 2020/21 financial year. This means we are seeing different patterns in the submitted data, for example, fewer patients being admitted to hospital, and therefore statistics which contain data from this period should be interpreted with care.
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