Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, Outpatients and Accident and Emergency Data - April 2014 to March 2015

Monthly HES data for Admitted Patient Care

In the year from April 2014 to March 2015 there were:

• 18.7 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs)², 60.6 per cent (11.3 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 6.6 million of which were day cases.
• 15.9 million finished admission episodes (FAEs)³, of which 5.6 million were emergency admissions.

Monthly HES data for Outpatients

In the year from April 2014 to March 2015 there were:

• 107.1 million outpatient appointments made, with 85.6 million (79.9 per cent) of these attended by the patient.
• 7.5 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 7.0 per cent of all appointments

Monthly HES data for Accident & Emergency

In the year from April 2014 to March 2015 there were:

• 19.5 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 (19.8 per cent) resulted in a GP follow up, and 7.4 million (37.9 per cent) were discharged with no follow up.

Admitted Patient Data Completeness:

• The variation between the most recent month's data is more pronounced when considering clinical (procedures and diagnoses) coverage.
• 0.6 per cent more procedures and 0.8 per cent more diagnoses were coded in the HES data submitted to SUS (Month 13) - the extract used for this publication - compared to the HES data submitted to SUS by (Month 12) - the extract used for the previous publication. We accordingly recommend extra caution using clinical codes for the most recent month's data.