Key Facts
Monthly HES Data for Admitted Patient Care
In the year from August 2021 to July 2022 there were:
• 19.4 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 58.4% (11.3 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 6.9 million of which were day cases.
• 15.8 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 6.0 million were emergency admissions.
Monthly HES data for Outpatients
In the year from August 2021 to July 2022 there were:
• 120.6 million outpatient appointments made, with 93.4 million (77.4%) of these attended by the patient.
• 7.9 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 6.5% of all appointments.
Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care and Outpatients Dashboard
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Hospital Episode Statistics Monthly Activity Report
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We will update the dashboards above each month and will build the granularity and potential for insight in subsequent releases, so would welcome your feedback in doing this. Please contact us via [email protected] with the subject “Monthly HES” or "HES Monthly Activity Report".
Following a review we will no longer be producing a quarterly release of outpatient appointments where the Earliest Clinically Appropriate Date is present and the treatment specialty is ophthalmology. This will be replaced by a monthly breakdown of data, published annually alongside the HES Outpatient Annual Publication.
Routine summary information relating to procedures for the treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence is regularly published here for transparency and scrutiny. Follow up is taking place with individual Trusts to confirm that specific treatment is as described for activity occurring since 2021/22. This will lead to more accurate information on these procedures that occurred since 2021/22 being published later in 2022. In collating this information, it has already become clear that some Trusts mis-coded these procedures in Commissioning Data Set return used to produce these statistics. Alongside this the clinical coding guidance has been refined to enable more accurate identification of specific treatments. The data published from here will continue to be published for transparency purposes. However, for these reasons small numbers reported on treatments for this condition should be used as a starting point for further investigation rather than a definitive view.
NHS Digital routinely collects data from hospital providers regarding a patient's time at hospital as part of the Commissioning Data Set (CDS). This is then processed and is returned to healthcare providers as the Secondary Uses Service (SUS) data set and is used by the NHS for operational purposes. Most NHS hospital trusts submit data on a monthly basis by deadline following a two-phase reconciliation process to arrive at a final agreed position for each month's activity defined in the NHS Standard Contract for payment purposes. This data is consolidated, validated and cleaned and then used to create the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set which is released on a monthly basis as official statistics.
As a number of trusts now submit data as part of the CDS more frequently such as weekly or even sometimes daily. This subset of more frequently reported management information data reported in SUS provides opportunity for additional insights from that which might be immediately available in HES data. To help unlock the opportunities this SUS data can provide to produce management information the following data quality dashboard output has been published with the intention to:
- help with working to improve the quality of the data derived from SUS
- to assist in interpreting meaning and insight from the current SUS APC data
- help understand which providers have more up to date data
Please be aware the information provided here is not directly comparable to any similar metrics that maybe reported in our other HES data quality outputs. This is available via the "Weekly SUS APC Report" link below.
