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

Monthly HES data for Admitted Patient Care:

In the year from November 2013 to October 2014 there were:

• 18.5 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 60.6 per cent (11.2 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 6.4 million of which were day cases.
• 15.7 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 5.6 million were emergency admissions.

Monthly HES data for Outpatients:

In the year from November 2013 to October 2014 there were:

• 104.1 million outpatient appointments made, with 83.7 million (80.4 per cent) of these attended by the patient.
• 7.2 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 November 2013 to October 2014 there were:

• 19.1 million A&E attendances recorded in A&E HES of which 4.0 million (20.8 per cent) resulted in admission to hospital for admitted patient care. 3.8 million (19.7 per cent) resulted in a GP follow up, and 7.2 million (37.7 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.
• 5.4 per cent More procedures and 7.2 per cent more diagnoses were coded in the HES data submitted to SUS (Month 08) - the extract used for this publication - compared to the HES data submitted to SUS by (Month 07) - the extract used for the previous publication. We accordingly recommend extra caution using clinical codes for the most recent months data.