These indicators are designed to accompany the SHMI publication.
COVID-19 activity is included in the SHMI if the discharge date is on or after 1 September 2021.
Contextual indicators on the number of provider spells which are related to COVID-19 and on the number of provider spells as a percentage of pre-pandemic activity (January 2019 – December 2019) are produced to support the interpretation of the SHMI.
The number of spells as a percentage of pre-pandemic activity indicator is being published as an official statistic in development. Official statistics in development are published in order to involve users and stakeholders in their development and as a means to build in quality at an early stage.
From November 2024, following a review of the methodology and approach to producing the number of Covid-19 spells indicator, the 'official statistics in development' designation has been removed from this indicator.
Notes:
1. There is a high percentage of invalid diagnosis codes for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (trust code RFS), East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (trust code RXR), Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (trust code RCD), Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (trust code RHU), and University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (trust code RK9). Values for these trusts should therefore be interpreted with caution.
2. A number of trusts are now submitting Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) data to the Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) rather than the Admitted Patient Care (APC) dataset. The SHMI is calculated using APC data. Removal of SDEC activity from the APC data may impact a trust’s SHMI value and may increase it. More information about this is available in the SHMI background quality report.
3. Further information on data quality can be found in the SHMI background quality report, which can be downloaded from the 'Resources' section of the publication page.