Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, Outpatients and Accident and Emergency Data - April 2015 to January 2016

Monthly HES Data for Admitted Patient Care

In the year from February 2015 to January 2016 there were:

• 19.1 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 60.3 per cent (11.5 million) of which included at least one

procedure or intervention, and 6.8 million of which were day cases.

• 16.1 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 5.7 million were emergency admissions.

Monthly HES Data for Outpatients

In the year from February 2015 to January 2016 there were:

• 111.5 million outpatient appointments made, with 88.1 million (79.0 per cent) of these attended by the patient.

• 7.5 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 6.7 per cent of all appointments.

Monthly HES Data for Accident & Emergency

In the year from February 2015 to January 2016 there were:

• 20.0 million A&E attendances recorded in A&E HES of which 4.1 million (20.4 per cent) resulted in admission to

hospital for admitted patient care. 4.0 million (19.9 per cent) resulted in a GP follow up, and 7.5 million (37.5

per cent) were discharged with no follow up.

Admitted Patient Care Data Completeness

The variation between the most recent month's data is more pronounced when considering clinical (procedures and

diagnoses) coverage. 6.9 per cent more procedures and 9.1 per cent more diagnoses were coded in the HES data

submitted to SUS (Month 10) - the extract used for this publication - compared to the HES data submitted to SUS by

(Month 09) - the extract used for the previous publication. We accordingly recommend extra caution using clinical

codes for the most recent month's data.