Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, Outpatients and Accident and Emergency Data - April 2016 to March 2017 (M12)

Monthly HES data for Admitted Patient Care:

In the year from April 2016 to March 2017 there were:

• 19.8 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 60.0 per cent (11.8 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 7.1 million of which were day cases.

• 16.6 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 5.9 million were emergency admissions.

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  Monthly HES data for Outpatients:

   

  In the year from April 2016 to March 2017 there were:

  • 117.7 million Outpatient appointments made, with 93.3 million (79.3 per cent) of these attended by the patient.

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

  Monthly HES data for Accident and Emergency:

   

  In the year from April 2016 to March 2017 there were:

  • 20.9 million A&E attendances recorded in A&E HES of which 4.2 million (20.3 per cent) resulted in admission to hospital for admitted patient care. 4.1 million (19.4 per cent) resulted in a GP follow up, and 7.8 million (37.2 per cent) were discharged with no follow up.

  Admitted Patient Care data completeness:

  • The variation from the previous months' data is more pronounced when considering clinical (procedures and diagnoses) coverage. 9.6% more procedures and 12.4% more diagnoses were coded in the HES data submitted to SUS (Month 12) - the extract used for this publication - compared to the HES data submitted to SUS by (Month 11) - the extract used for the previous publication. We accordingly recommend extra caution using clinical codes for the most recent months data.