Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 229 days ago
Documentation
Description:
Linked Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care (HES APC) data contains details of all admissions to, or attendances at English NHS healthcare providers. This includes private patients treated in NHS hospitals, patients resident outside of England and care delivered by treatment centres (including those in the independent sector) funded by the NHS. All NHS healthcare providers in England, including acute hospital trusts, primary care trusts and mental health trusts provide data. HES APC data includes the complete set of hospital episode information (admission and discharge dates, diagnoses (identifying primary diagnosis), specialists seen under and procedures undertaken) for each linked patient with a hospitalisation record. In addition, Augmented care data (intensive and/or high dependency levels of care) and Maternity data are available.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom,England
Typical Age Range:
0-115
Follow Up:
1 - 10 Years
Pathway:
Secondary care
Provenance
Origin
Sources:
EPR
Collection Situations:
Secondary care - In-patients
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Quarterly
Distribution Release Date:
01 March 2022
Start Date:
01 April 1997
End Date:
31 March 2021
Time Lag:
1-2 months
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
Remote Desktop to dedicated Windows Server. Standard Server Spec: 16GB RAM, 4
Logical Xeon Gold Processors, 200 GB HDD Max available Server Spec: 512GB RAM,
72 Logical Xeon Gold Processors, 2TB HDD. Tesla V100 GPU
Access Request Cost:
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
GB-ENG
Data Controller:
University of Oxford
Data Processor:
University of Oxford
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
- Research-specific restrictions
- Research use only
Data Use Requirements:
- Ethics approval required
- Not for profit use
Resource Creators:
NHS Digital
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
- ICD10
- ICD9
- ODS
- OPCS4
Languages:
en
Formats:
- CSV
- TSV
- Stata
- SQL Server Database
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Persons
Number of patients matched to single HES identifier
35047612
Count
04 February 2022