Hospital Outpatient Activity 2022-23

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User feedback

We have a dedicated e-mail address for users to e-mail their views, suggestions, queries or concerns regarding the publication.  

We consult users when proposing significant changes to the content of or methodologies used in the publications.

In addition, in 2016 NHS Digital conducted a wider consultation exercise on all its publications and services, including HES, and the outcome is available to all. 

The HES publications focus on headline information about hospital activity. Each 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 England publish data dictionaries for HES describing the format and possible values for all HES data items.

These data are also readily accessible via an online interrogation service (for NHS users) or via our bespoke extract service Data Access and Request Service (DARS). 

The Organisation Data Service (ODS) is responsible for the publication of all organisation and practitioner codes and national policy and standards with regard to the majority of organisation codes.

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