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

Monthly HES data for Admitted Patient Care:
In the year from September 2013 to August 2014 there were:

• 18.3 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs)² , 60.6 per cent (11.1 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 6.4 million of which were day cases.
• 15.5 million finished admission episodes (FAEs)³ , of which 5.5 million were emergency admissions.

Monthly HES data for Outpatients:
In the year from September 2013 to August 2014 there were:

• 102.2 million outpatient appointments made, with 82.3 million (80.5 per cent) of these attended by the patient.
• 7.1 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 6.9 per cent of all appointments.

 
Monthly HES data for Accident & Emergency:
In the year from September 2013 to August 2014 there were:

• 18.8 million A&E attendances recorded in A&E HES of which 3.9 million (20.9 per cent) resulted in admission to hospital for admitted patient care.
• 3.7 million (19.7 per cent) resulted in a GP follow up, and 7.1 million (37.8 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.
• 7.3 per cent more procedures and 8.6 per cent more diagnoses were coded in the HES data submitted to SUS (Month 06) - the extract used for this publication - compared to the HES data submitted to SUS by (Month 05) - the extract used for the previous publication. We accordingly recommend extra caution using clinical codes for the most recent months' data.