Please Note: The Deliveries special topic in this publication contained an incorrect description of the analyses. In the version published at 9.30am on Tuesday 9 February the label 'date of delivery' was incorrectly attached to the 'date in which the delivery episode finished'. This was updated at 1:58pm on Tuesday 9 February.

Headline figures for episodes; admissions; outpatient appointments; this month's special topics - TKAP II, Intentional Self Harm, NHS hospital deliveries

Summary

Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) is a data warehouse containing records of all patients admitted to NHS hospitals in England. It contains details of more than 16 million episodes of inpatient care (finished consultant episodes) and over 76 million outpatient appointments per year. The Kennedy report recommended that HES should be "supported as a major national resource for the monitoring of a range of healthcare outcomes".

Hospital episode statistics (HES) inpatient (admitted patient care) and outpatient data is now being published on a monthly basis. This data is provisional and should therefore be treated as an estimate until the final National Statistics annual publications.

Key Facts

Inpatients

In the year from November 2008 to October 2009 there were:

• 16.5 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 57.3 per cent of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and of these 5.3 million were day cases.
• 14.3 million admission episodes, of which 5.1 million were emergency admissions.

Outpatients

In the year from November 2008 to October 2009 there were:

• 79.5 million outpatient appointments were made, with 64.0 million (80.5 per cent) of these attended by the patient.
• 6.3 million outpatient appointments were not attended by the patient, representing 7.9 per cent of all appointments.

A&E

In the year from November 2008 to October 2009 there were:

• 14.8 million A&E attendances recorded in A&E HES. Of these 3.2 million (22 per cent) resulted in admission to hospital for inpatient treatment, 2.7 million (18 per cent) A&E attendances resulted in a GP follow up, and 5.8 million (39 per cent) were discharged with no follow up.

TKAP II

• In the current year from November 2008 to October 2009 there were 43,455 finished admission episodes for assault (all age groups), of these 27,124 (62.4 per cent) were from Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP) local authorities and 16,331 from non-TKAP areas.
• In the previous year from November 2007 to October 2008 there were 42,124 finished admission episodes for assault (all age groups), of these 26,261 (62.3 per cent) were from Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP) local authorities and 15,863 from non-TKAP areas.
• Between these periods admission episodes for assault increased by 3.2 per cent in England with an increase of 3.3 per cent in TKAP areas and an increase of 3.0 per cent in Non-TKAP areas.
• There were 10,838 finished admission episodes recorded in the year November 2008 to October 2009 for people aged between 13-24 within TKAP areas, representing an increase of 99 (0.9 per cent) from the previous year (November 2007 to October 2008).
• There were 6,480 finished admission episodes recorded in the year November 2008 to October 2009 for people aged between 13-24 within non-TKAP areas, representing an increase of 102 (1.6 per cent) from the previous year (November 2007 to October 2008).

Intentional Self Harm

• From November 2008 to October 2009 there were 102,233 admission episodes with a primary cause code of intentional self harm.
• There were 100,607 comparable admissions from November 2007 to October 2008
• The increase between these two periods was 1.6 per cent
• 59 per cent of admissions from November 2008 to October 2009 were by female patients
• The highest rate of admission per head of population was for patients resident in the North East SHA area with 320 admissions per 100,000 population.

NHS hospital deliveries

• In the year from November 2008 to October 2009 there were 659,902 finished consultant delivery episodes in NHS hospitals, England.
• In the year from November 2007 to October 2008 there were 656,513 finished consultant delivery episodes in NHS hospitals, England
• This represents a increase of 3,389 (1 per cent) finished consultant delivery episodes for the period November 2008 to October 2009 compared to the previous year (November 2007 to October 2008).

The report findings can be found on the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) website, where you will now be redirected to.