Monthly HES Data for Admitted Patient Care
In the year from April 2020 to March 2021 there were:
• 16.2 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 55.8% (9.0 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 4.8 million of which were day cases.
• 12.8 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 5.4 million were emergency admissions.
Monthly HES data for Outpatients
In the year from April 2020 to March 2021 there were:
• 100.8 million outpatient appointments made, with 77.6 million (77.0%) of these attended by the patient.
• 5.6 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 5.6% of all appointments.
We have replaced the reports and data files with an interactive dashboard that provides the same information as those previous reports, with the flexibility to introduce further breakdowns of the data in future releases. We will update this dashboard each month and will build the granularity and potential for insight in subsequent releases, so would welcome your feedback in doing this. Please get back to us via [email protected] with the subject "Monthly HES".
We have also introduced a new report into the monthly HES publication as detailed below;
In 2018 a consultation took place to seek feedback from users regarding a proposal to terminate an existing NHS England and Improvement collection - the Quarterly Activity return (QAR), and significantly reduce the scope of another collection - the Monthly Activity Return (MAR) to reduce the NHS data collection burden. Responses to the consultation have been reviewed and a decision made to stop QAR and reduce MAR to referrals information only and will therefore be re-named the Monthly Referrals Return (MRR). The consultation and outcome document with further details can be found on the NHS England Statistics web page. https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/survey/monthly-and-quarterly-statistics-return/
The HES Monthly Activity Report (HES MAR) replaces the Monthly (MAR) and Quarterly (QAR) Activity Returns that were collected by NHS England until May 2020. The MAR and QAR returns were aggregate collections that were collected and published at provider and commissioner level. The HES MAR report produces counts of equivalent measures from the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Data Set.
We will update this dashboard each month and will build the granularity and potential for insight in subsequent releases, so would welcome your feedback in doing this. Please get back to us via [email protected] with the subject "HES Monthly Activity Report".