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Publication, Part of

Hospital Accident & Emergency Activity, 2022-23

Official statistics

Publication Date:
21 Sep 2023
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Country, Strategic Health Authorities, NHS Trusts, Hospital Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers
Date Range:
01 Apr 2022 to 31 Mar 2023

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Update to Home Nations Comparison File

We have made an update to one of the 12 hour wait percentage figures in the Home Nations file. If you have downloaded this file prior to 11:45 on 21st September 2023, please re-download the file and ensure you are using the one which has 'v2' at the end of the file name. 

21 September 2023 11:45 AM

Update to clinical figures

We have made an update to some of the figures for the 'NOT SUBMITTED' and total values for the first diagnosis codes. If you are using the National Data Tables, Open Data CSV or Provider Level Analysis CSV and have downloaded of these prior to 12pm on 23rd October 2023, please re-download this and ensure that the file you are using has 'v2' at the end of the file name. 

23 October 2023 12:00 PM

Update to provider level analysis

We have updates some of the figures in the provider level analysis file. If you have downloaded this file before 13:30 on 25th October 2023, please re-download it and ensure you are using the file that has v3 at the end of the file name. 

25 October 2023 13:30 PM

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Further Information about ECDS and MSitAE

Further Information about ECDS

The NHS England website contains more background information about ECDS:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/emergency-care-data-set-ecds

 

Accessing ECDS

The ECDS publication focuses on headline information about hospital activity. The annual publication includes a series of national tables and also provider-level breakdowns for some main areas.

All data items included in the published tables are explained in footnotes, and NHS Digital publishes a Technical Output Specification (TOS) for ECDS describing the format and possible values for all ECDS data items:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/emergency-care-data-set-ecds/ecds-latest-update#enhanced-tos

Further information about MSitAE

NHS England and NHS Improvement compiles A&E attendances and emergency admissions data through a central return that is split into two parts:

  • A&E Attendances: This collects the number of A&E attendances, patients spending greater than 4 hours in A&E from arrival to discharge, transfer or admission and the number of patients delayed more than 4 hours from decision to admit to admission.
  • Emergency Admissions: This collects the total number of emergency admissions via A&E as well as other emergency admissions (i.e. not via A&E).

The above data items are split by the following categories of A&E department:

  • Type 1 Department (Major A&E Department).
  • Type 2 Department
  • Type 3 A&E department / Type 4 A&E department / Urgent Care Centre

Detailed descriptions of the A&E department types can be found on the Introduction Section of this document.

NHS Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts, Social Enterprises and GP Practices submit data to NHS England and NHS Improvement via the NHS Digital Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS). The Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS) is a secure data collection system which accepts uploads of submissions in a variety of formats. Once data is submitted and signed-off, NHS England performs central validation checks to ensure good data quality.

Data Availability

A&E attendances and emergency admissions data are published to a pre-announced timetable, usually every second Thursday of the month. The data is published on the NHS England website:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/

 

Data Revisions

Revisions to published figures are released on a six-monthly basis and in accordance with the NHS England Analytical Services (National) team’s revision policy:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/code-compliance/

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