Outpatient performance dashboards:

• Trends
• Comparator
• Referral routes

The outpatient referral routes dashboard allows you to investigate and analyse the referral routes for patients referred into respiratory medicine including whether patients were on urgent referrals, where they were referred from, and how long referrals took.

Please reference use of the Taskforce data dashboards, and if you have any comments or questions please contact taskforce@asthmaandlung.org.uk.

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How to use this dashboard

• The Referral Routes dashboard shows outpatient activity for your selected organisation and specialty by the referral route and referral pathway type, allowing you to identify the most common routes for initial outpatient referrals as well as average waiting times.
• Use the Normalisation option of Absolute for raw numbers and Rate per 100,000 to compare areas.
• The dashboard will split into sections for referral pathways selected.

Unique filters

• Date Period (Year)
• Consultant Specialty – Respiratory Medicine or Paediatric Respiratory Medicine
• Referral Pathway – All, Routine, 2 Week Wait, Urgent, Unknown
  

About the data source

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Outpatient Activity is an NHS data set comprising details of all outpatient appointments at NHS hospitals in England and includes data about hospital outpatient appointments by patient demographics, attendance types, operations, specialty, and provider level analysis. HES is sourced from the Secondary Uses Service (SUS) database, which is collected from hospitals’ patient administration systems on a monthly basis at record level. The quality of HES data is the responsibility of the NHS providers who submit the data to Secondary Uses Service (SUS). These data are required to be accurate to enable them to be correctly paid for the activity they undertake.

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