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Description:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) is a database containing details of all admissions, A and E attendances and outpatient appointments at NHS hospitals in England. Adult Critical Care (ACC) is a subset of APC data. An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or High Dependency Unit (HDU) ward in a hospital, known as a critical care unit, provides support, monitoring and treatment for critically ill patients requiring constant support and monitoring to maintain function in at least one organ, and often in multiple organs. Medical equipment is used to take the place of patients’ organs during their recovery. Some critical care units are attached to condition-specific treatment units, such as heart, kidney, liver, breathing, circulation or nervous disorders. Others specialise in neonatal care (babies), paediatric care (children) or patients with severe injury or trauma. Initially this data is collected during a patient"s time at hospital as part of the Commissioning Data Set (CDS). This is submitted to NHS Digital for processing and is returned to healthcare providers as the Secondary Uses Service (SUS) data set and includes information relating to payment for activity undertaken. It allows hospitals to be paid for the care they deliver. This same data can also be processed and used for non-clinical purposes, such as research and planning health services. Because these uses are not to do with direct patient care, they are called "secondary uses". This is the HES data set. HES data covers all NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England, including: private patients treated in NHS hospitals patients resident outside of England care delivered by treatment centres (including those in the independent sector) funded by the NHS Each HES record contains a wide range of information about an individual patient admitted to an NHS hospital, including: clinical information about diagnoses and operations patient information, such as age group, gender and ethnicity administrative information, such as dates and methods of admission and discharge geographical information such as where patients are treated and the area where they live We apply a strict statistical disclosure control in accordance with the NHS Digital protocol, to all published HES data. This suppresses small numbers to stop people identifying themselves and others, to ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained. https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity
Coverage
Typical Age Range:
0-120
Follow Up:
Other
Pathway:
Secondary Care pathway. This dataset covers critical care periods for inpatient
admissions to hospitals in England. It includes information on the treatment and
outcome of the critical care period and can be linked to the HES APC dataset to
get further information on the admission relating to the critical care period.
Provenance
Origin
Collection Situations:
Secondary care - In-patients
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Monthly
Start Date:
04 January 2007
Time Lag:
1-2 months
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
Once your DARS application has been approved, data will be made available either
by secure file transfer or through the Data Access Environment (DAE). Secure
file transfer: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/transfer-data-securely DAE:
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-environment-dae
Access Request Cost:
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
GB-ENG
Data Controller:
NHS England (NHSE)
Data Processor:
NHS England (NHSE)
Usage
Data Use Requirements:
- Ethics approval required
- Institution-specific restrictions
- Not for profit use
- Project-specific restrictions
- Time limit on use
- User-specific restriction
Resource Creators:
NHS ENGLAND
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
- OPCS4
- NHS NATIONAL CODES
- ICD10
- OTHER
Languages:
en
Formats:
- CSV
- JSON
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Events
Useable adult critical care records
286224
Count
06 November 2021