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, Outpatient and Accident and Emergency data, April 2023 - June 2023
Official statistics
Consultation: proposed improvements to the Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity and Hospital Outpatient Activity publication
The data included within the 2022-23 release will remain the same or have minor changes to the publication series (Admitted Patient Care) (Outpatients), details about the changes can be found within the consultation.
Please complete our consultation about the changes and share your feedback by 18th August 2023
18 August 2023 00:00 AM
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 and outpatient appointments. 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.
Key Facts
Monthly HES Data for Admitted Patient Care
In the year from July 2022 to June 2023 there were:
• 20.3 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 58.8% (11.9 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 7.5 million of which were day cases.
• 16.6 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 6.1 million were emergency admissions.
Monthly HES data for Outpatients
In the year from July 2022 to June 2023 there were:
• 124.8 million outpatient appointments made, with 96.1 million (77.0%) of these attended by the patient.
• 7.9 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 6.3% of all appointments
Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care and Outpatients Dashboard
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".
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
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