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Publication, Part of Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, Outpatient and Accident and Emergency data
Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, Outpatients and Accident and Emergency Data - April 2015 to November 2015
Official statistics- Publication Date:
- 24 Feb 2016
- Geographic Coverage:
- England
- Geographical Granularity:
- Country
- Date Range:
- 01 Apr 2015 to 30 Nov 2015
Summary
Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) is a data warehouse containing records of all patients admitted to NHS hospitals in England. It contains details of inpatient care, outpatient appointments and A&E attendance records.
Hospital episode statistics (HES) statistics are produced and published on a monthly basis. This data is provisional and should therefore be treated as an estimate until the final National Statistics annual publications.
Changes will be made to this publication from March 2016 onwards. For more details please see the "Related Links" section at the bottom of this page.
Please Note:Finalised 2014-15 HES A&E data was published on 28th Jan 2016, but this provisional monthly publication, released on the 24th Feb 2016, referenced provisional 2014-15 A&E HES data. The issue was corrected for subsequent monthly publications, which supersede this publication.
Highlights
Monthly HES Data forAdmitted Patient Care
In the year from December 2014 to November 2015 there were:
• 19.0 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs)² , 60.6 per cent (11.5 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 6.8 million of which were day cases.
• 16.1 million finished admission episodes (FAEs)³ , of which 5.7 million were emergency admissions.
Monthly HES Data forOutpatients
In the year from December 2014 to November 2015 there were:
• 111.3 million outpatient appointments made, with 88.0 million (79.1 per cent) of these attended by the patient.
• 7.5 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 6.7 per cent of all appointments.
Monthly HES Data forAccident & Emergency
In the year from December 2014 to November 2015 there were:
• 19.7 million A&E attendances recorded in A&E HES of which 4.0 million (20.5 per cent) resulted in admission to hospital for admitted patient care. 3.9 million (20.0 per cent) resulted in a GP follow up, and 7.4 million (37.6 per cent) were discharged with no follow up.
Admitted Patient Care Data Completeness
The variation between the most recent month's data is more pronounced when considering clinical (procedures and diagnoses) coverage. 9.3 per cent more procedures and 11.8 per cent more diagnoses were coded in the HES data submitted to SUS (Month 09) - the extract used for this publication - compared to the HES data submitted to SUS by (Month 08) - the extract used for the previous publication. We accordingly recommend extra caution using clinical codes for the most recent month's data.
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