Hospital Episodes and Statistics (HES)
- Abstract
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Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) is a data warehouse containing details of all admissions to NHS hospitals in England. It includes private patients treated in NHS hospitals, patients who were resident outside of England and care delivered by treatment centres (including those in the independent sector) funded by the NHS. HES also contains details of all NHS outpatient appointments in England. HES contains over 200 million records. Each HES record contains a wide range of information about an individual patient admitted to an NHS hospital. For example:
* clinical information about diagnoses and operations
* information about the patient, such as age group, gender and ethnic category
* administrative information, such as time waited and date of admission
* geographical information on where the patient was treated and the area in which they lived. - Main Topics/Subject Category
- Inpatient admissions, outpatient appointments, clinical information about diagnoses and operations, information about the patient, such as age group, gender and ethnic category, administrative information, such as time waited and date of admission, geographical information on where the patient was treated and the area in which they lived.
- Variables
- http://www.hesonline.NHS.uk[…]eID=1937&categoryID=289
- Keywords
- Diagnoses, procedures, interventions, healthcare resource groups, NHS trusts, health authority areas, length of stay, waiting times, admission methods, admission, age, sex, ethnic group, maternity care, psychiatric care, admit, waiting time, discharge, episode, critical care, maternity, gestation, antenatal, postnatal, ethnicity, age, gender, socioeconomic
- Identifier Variables
- Cancer network, electoral ward, GOR, LA, SHA, site code of treatment, region of treatment
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Activity
- Area of Health System
- Secondary care
- Data Available
- Risk behaviours, Socio-economic, Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- HES
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Unit of Analysis
- Aggregate
- Sample
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HES contains over 200 million records.
- Availability
- HES online
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.hesonline.NHS.uk[…]eID=1937&categoryID=245
- Contact
- Tel: 08453006016, enquiries@ic.nhs.uk
- Publications
- Thompson A. Patterns of hospital admission for adult psychiatric illness in England: analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics data. The British Journal of Psychiatry 2004; 185: 334-341