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Integrated Data Asset Hospital Episode Statistics

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Summary

This asset provides pseudonymised record level patient confidential information of interactions with NHS hospital services in England. They cover admitted patient care (or inpatients), outpatients and accident and emergency services for 2009/10 through to the latest year. HES A&E data were replaced by Emergency Care Dataset (ECDS) from April 2020. The last supply of HES A&E is to 2019/20

Description

Pseudonymised Integrated Data Asset (IDA) version of the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) dataset. This IDA dataset has been indexed against the Demographic and Geography Indexes to include demographic_entry_ids and geography_entry_ids wherever possible. The IDA dataset has also been redacted to remove or obscure sensitive variables. This data has been prepared for delivery into IDS. This asset provides pseudonymised record level patient confidential information of interactions with NHS hospital services in England. They cover admitted patient care (or inpatients), outpatients and accident and emergency services for 2009/10 through to the latest year. HES Accident and Emergency (A&E) data were replaced by Emergency Care Dataset (ECDS) from April 2020. The last supply of HES A&E is to 2019/20.

About this data

Data creator
NHS-England
Temporal coverage
2009 to 2021
Frequency
Annual
Dataset theme
Health
Search keywords
Hospital Episodes Data Accident & Emergency Outpatients Admitted Patient Care

Metadata

Metadata

Dataset themeMain category for the topic of the resource
Health
Dataset resource typeThe type of the dataset resource
Administrative
Geographic coverageThe geographic area covered by the dataset
England
Temporal coverageThe timeframes covered by these data
2009 to 2021
FrequencyThe frequency at which the dataset resource is published or updated
Annual
Geographic levelThe lowest level of geography covered by the dataset
Geography Entry ID for postcode level
Data creatorThe name of the organisation that produced or published this resource
NHS-England
Data contributorsThe name(s) of any organisation(s), other than the data supplier or provider, that have data which are included in this dataset resource
Heath & Care Providers in England
Licensing statusThe license used for making this resource available and defining how it can be used
https://officenationalstatistics.sharepoint.com/sites/DaaSdi/Linkage%20Development%20Team/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2FDaaSdi%2FLinkage%20Development%20Team%2FProjects%2FIntegrated%20Data%20Asset%2FDARS%2DNIC%2D175120%2DW5G2X%2Dv7%2E4%2D%20NHS%20HES%20Data%20Sharing%20Agreement%2Epdf&parent=%2Fsites%2FDaaSdi%2FLinkage%20Development%20Team%2FProjects%2FIntegrated%20Data%20Asset
AcronymAny other names or acronyms used to refer to the data
HES
IDS Business Catalogue identifierThe identifier for this dataset resource
0.0122
ProvenanceDetails of how this dataset resource came to be generated
This is an indexed version of the HES unindexed annual datasets. It has been indexed against Demographic Index v4.0.1, Geography Index snapshot as of 25/07/2023