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Tag Archives: Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES)
Eldest Age Group’s Ambulance Trips to Accident and Emergency Rising Disproportionately (BBC News)
Summary The number of over-90s taken to A&E by ambulance in England has risen by 81% over the past three years, rising from approximately 165,910 in 2009-10 to 300,370 during 2012-13. Overall 999 trips to A&Es, for all age-groups, rose by 11% … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency Statistics, Age and Ageing, Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, BBC Health News, Care Integration, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Coordinated Care, Emergency Admission Rates in UK, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Ambulance Services, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Frail Elders, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Hospital Episode Statistics: Accident and Emergency Statistics, Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES), HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Labour Party, Oldest Old, Oldest Old in the United Kingdom, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Service Interventions, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Wellbeing and an Ageing Population
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Focus on Accident and Emergency: December 2013 (BBC News / HSCIC / BMJ Open / British Journal of General Practice / CEM)
Summary A statistical briefing from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) indicates that there has been a small – but significant – increase in the number of over-65s attending the major A&E units. The problem lies in the … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
Tagged 999 Ambulance Service, A&E Quality Indicators, A&E Workforce, Accident and Emergency Weekly Situation Reports (WSitAE), Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Adult Social Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing, Ageing Society, Alternatives to A&E, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Ambulance Delays at Emergency Departments, Ambulance Queuing at Emergency Departments, Ambulance Services, Ambulance Waits at Emergency Departments, Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions (ACS), Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, BBC Health News, BMJ Open, British Journal of General Practice, Care Integration, Clinical Quality Indicators, College of Emergency Medicine (CEM), Community Health Centres, Configuration of Services, Coordinated Care, Delayed Handovers Between Ambulance and A&E Staff, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health: University of Exeter Medical School, Department of Family Medicine: University of Washington, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences: University of Oxford, Diagnostic Imaging Dataset (DID), Discharge and Out of Hospital Care, Emergency Admission Rates in UK, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Ambulance Services, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST), Emergency Departments, Emergency Medicine Specialty, Emergency Nurse Practitioners, Emergency Nurse Practitioners in Community Settings, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital Within 28 Days of Discharge, Emergency Readmissions: Fractured Proximal Femur, Emergency Readmissions: Hysterectomy, Emergency Readmissions: Primary Hip Replacement Surgery, Emergency Readmissions: Stroke, Emergency Services, ENLIGHTENme, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Flow Within Hospitals, FOI: Freedom of information, Foundation Trust Network, Foundation Trust Network (FTN), Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Freedom of Information, General Hospitals, GP Cooperatives and Out-of-Hours Services, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GPs, Handover, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, Holistic Quality Improvement, Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES), HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Integration of Health and Social Care, Joined-Up Care, Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS), MercyAscot Hospitals: Auckland, Minor Injuries Units, Minor Injury Units (MIUs), New Zealand, NHS England: Improving A&E Performance, NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) Workforce, NHS Safety Thermometer, NHS Written Complaints, Nursing Staff, Out of Hours GP Services, Out-of-Hours General Practice, Patient flow, Patient Flow Within Hospitals, Patient Handover Delays, Population Growth and Ageing, Preparations for Winter, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Service Interventions, QED: Quality in Emergency Care Dashboard Project, Quality in Emergency care Dashboard (QED) Project, Quarterly Monitoring of A&E (QMAE), Re-Admission NHS Hospitals, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Recovery and Improvement Plans, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Safe Staffing, Skill Mix, Staffing Level Indicators: Skill Mix, Staffing of Urgent Care Centres, System Benchmarks, System Benchmarks (A&E), System Re-Design, Target Culture, Target-Chasing (Hitting the Target Missing the Point), Target-Driven Priorities, Targets, Tariffs and Informatics Systems, Telephone Triage Service, Trusts with Out of Hours GP Services, Trusts with Urgent Care Centres, Type 1 A&E Department (Major A&E), Type 2 A&E Department (Single Specialty), Type 3 A&E Department (Other A&E / Minor Injury Unit), United States, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Oxford, University of Washington, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Facilities, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Commissioning, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Health UK, USA, Waiting Delays: Ambulances Outside A&E, Walk-in Centres (WiCs), Winter Pressures
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Consultation on Hospital Data to Raise Standards and Improve Patient Safety (NHS England and the HSCIC)
Summary NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) have released “NHS Hospital Data and Datasets: A Consultation” to discover whether better extraction of information from hospitals’ data systems might be able to raise standards, improve patient … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Bespoke Outputs, Caldicott Review of Information Governance, Care Episode Statistics (CES), CDS: Commissioning Data Set, CES Theograph, CHKS, Clinician Access to Data, Commissioner Access to Data, Commissioning Development, Datasets, Direct Improvements in Care, Example Data Set, Finished Consultant Episodes, Francis Inquiry Report, Guides to Hospital Data, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), HES Data Interrogation System, HES Data Quality, Hospital Data, Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES), Hospital Spell, HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Indirect Improvements in Care, Information Governance, Information Standards and Collections, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Hospital Data, NHS Hospital Data and Datasets, Non-Executive Directors’ (NEDs’) Guides to Hospital Data, Pseudonymous Data, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Researcher Access to Data, Responses to the Francis Inquiry Report, Secondary Uses Service (SUS), SEM: SUS Extract Mart, Theograph, Understanding Hospital Data, Uses of HES Data, Visualisation of Patient Records
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Health Investment Tools (Department of Health / Health Investment Network)
[A brief reference to this item appears in: Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 3 Issue 3, October 2012]. Summary The Health Investment website, launched in 2010 as part of the QIPP Right Care Programme, helps … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Social Workers (mostly), National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Atlas of Variation, Budgeting Atlases, Health Investment Tools, Health Investment Website, Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES), Network of Public Health Observatories, NHS Atlas of Variation, NHS Atlases of Variation, NHS Comparators, PCT Spend and Outcome Factsheets and Tool (SPOT), Programme Budgeting Atlases, Programme Budgeting Benchmarking Tool, Public Health Observatories of England, QIPP Right Care Programme, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), Spend and Outcomes Tool (SPOT), SPOT: Spend and Outcomes Tool
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Secondary Uses Service (NHS Information Centre)
Summary The Secondary Uses Service (SUS) is healthcare data warehouse which provides access to anonymous patient-based data for purposes other than direct clinical care. This facilitates reporting and analysis to support the NHS in the delivery of healthcare services, including: Healthcare planning. Commissioning … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Researchers (mostly), National, NHS, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Core Data Warehouse, eDQRS (Electronic Data Quality Report Service), Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES), NHS Comparators, NHS Connecting for Health, NHS Information Centre, Payment by Results (PbR), RTT KPI Guidance, Secondary Uses Service (SUS), SUS Data Quality Dashboards, SUS Data Warehouse, SUS Extract Mart (SEM), SUS Payment by Results (PbR)
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