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Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2022-23

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Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2022-23


Update to excel output

We have made an update to the Hospital Providers and ICB of Responsibility excel output. If you have downloaded these files prior to 15:00 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 11:52 AM

Format change to ICD-10 Diagnosis and OPCS-4 Procedure codes.

This is a format only change. The 4 digit ICD-10 diagnosis codes and the 4 digit OPCS-4 procedure codes were originally published without the separating "." between the 3rd and 4th character. If you have downloaded the following files prior to 9th Feb 2024 please refresh them from the resource links below:

Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2022-23: Diagnosis

Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2022-23: Procedures and interventions

Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2022-23: Open Data - Diagnosis

Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2022-23: Open Data - Procedures

9 February 2024 11:04 AM

Summary

This publication reports on Admitted Patient Care activity in England for the financial year 2022-23.

This report includes but is not limited to analysis of hospital episodes by patient demographics, diagnoses, external causes/injuries, operations, bed days, admission method, time waited, specialty, provider level analysis and Adult Critical Care (ACC). It describes NHS Admitted Patient Care Activity, Adult Critical Care activity and performance in hospitals in England. The purpose of this publication is to inform and support strategic and policy-led processes for the benefit of patient care and may also be of interest to researchers, journalists and members of the public interested in NHS hospital activity in England.

The data sources for this publication are Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). It contains final data and replaces the provisional data that are released each month. HES contains records of all admissions, appointments and attendances for patients at NHS hospitals in England. The HES data used in this publication are called 'Finished Consultant Episodes', and each episode relates to a period of care for a patient under a single consultant at a single hospital. Therefore, this report counts the number of episodes of care for admitted patients rather than the number of patients. This publication shows the number of episodes during the period, with breakdowns including by patient's age, gender, diagnosis, procedure involved and by provider.

Please send queries or feedback via email to [email protected]. Author: Secondary Care Open Data and Publications, NHS England. Lead Analyst: Emily Michelmore


Key Facts

Number of Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs)

In 2022-23 there were 20.0 million FCEs recorded.

This is an increase of 2.0% on 2021-22 but is still below the level of activity in the year preceding the COVID-19 pandemic (2019-20).

Number of Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs)

In 2022-23 there were 16.4 million FAEs recorded.  

This is an increase of 2.6% on 2021-22 but is still below the level of activity in the year preceding the COVID-19 pandemic (2019-20).

Adult Critical Care

There were 237,951 useable critical care records recorded in 2022-23  

This is a decrease of 3.4% per cent from 2021-22.




Last edited: 26 February 2024 5:43 pm