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

Monthly HES Data forAdmitted Patient Care

In the year from December 2014 to November 2015 there were:
 

• 19.0 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs)² , 60.6 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)³ , of which 5.7 million were emergency admissions.

Monthly HES Data forOutpatients

In the year from December 2014 to November 2015 there were:

• 111.3 million outpatient appointments made, with 88.0 million (79.1 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 forAccident & Emergency

In the year from December 2014 to November 2015 there were:

• 19.7 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 (20.0 per cent) resulted in a GP follow up, and 7.4 million (37.6 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. 9.3 per cent more procedures and 11.8 per cent more diagnoses were coded in the HES data submitted to SUS (Month 09) - the extract used for this publication - compared to the HES data submitted to SUS by (Month 08) - the extract used for the previous publication. We accordingly recommend extra caution using clinical codes for the most recent month's data.