Publication, Part of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in England, Provisional 2023/24 data
Official statistics
Summary
Patients undergoing elective inpatient surgery for hip and knee replacement, funded by the English NHS are asked to complete questionnaires before and after their operations to assess improvement in health as perceived by the patients themselves. This publication is for Provisional Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in England - April 2023 to March 2024.
Please note that this publication covers a period where health services may still have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The completion, return and processing of questionnaire data analysed in this publication will have occurred during a period where restrictions on movement and changes to behaviours may have affected response levels. The response levels may also have been impacted by a reduction in resource at NHSE in recent years.
The Score Comparison Tool and Power BI tools will be published as part of the final publication, expected in February 2025. However, all the underlying data is still available for users to access in the csv files.
In analysing outcomes driven by the difference in pre-operative and post-operative questionnaires, please note that some data breakdowns or analyses are dependent on questionnaire pairs being linked to operations in Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) while others are not. As shown in the data quality section, not all questionnaire pairs link to HES, for reasons including correct patient identifiers not being returned or data inconsistencies. This means that the breakdowns that are dependent on linkage to HES, including by primary/revision, commissioner, or any casemix adjusted score comparisons will have lower totals than those not dependent on linkage to HES such as grand totals or some provider-level outputs.
Key Facts
For the 78,000 hip replacement episodes in 2023/24, we have to date received 55,000 pre-operative responses and 17,000 post operative responses
For the 74,000 hip replacement episodes in 2022/23, we received 53,000 pre-operative responses and 32,000 post-operative responses
For the 96,000 knee replacement episodes in 2023/24, we have to date received 65,000 pre-operative responses and 20,000 post operative responses
For the 85,000 knee replacement episodes in 2022/23, we received 62,000 pre-operative responses and 36,000 post-operative responses
The majority of patients reported improvements after their surgery
84.2% of hip replacement patients and 73.6% of knee replacement patients felt 'much better' after their surgery. Another 10.0% of hip replacement patients and 15.7% of knee replacement patients felt 'a little better'.
45.4% of hip patients reported an 'excellent' level of satisfaction.
29.6% of knee replacement patients reported an 'excellent' level of satisfaction.
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