National deprivation

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The national deprivation dashboard provides insight into the relationship between hospital admissions due to respiratory disease and socioeconomic deprivation both nationally and at a system level. Insights into respiratory hospital admissions across different age bands and ethnicities is also provided.

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

How to use this dashboard

  • The National Deprivation dashboard combines inpatient admissions activity with data from the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) so you can explore the impact of health inequalities on admissions.
  • Using the filters on the left-hand side, you can view data from 2021/2022, 2022/2023, and 2023/2024.
  • You can also filter the data by:
    • By organisation type i.e. National data or ICB level data
    • By diagnosis i.e. condition
    • By Diagnosis position i.e. where someone received their diagnosis
    • By admission type
    • By value type i.e. Number of admissions, number of patients and cost
    • By patient demographic i.e. by age group or ethnicity.
    • When using the Normalisation filter, we recommend selecting ‘Rate per 100,000’ to enable proper comparison. This is because absolute numbers don’t account for different population demographics.
  • Using these filters will change the visual graphs shown on the dashboard.
  • Changing the value type will change all three graphs to show what data you have selected.
    • The bar chart shows you how many admissions, patients, or costs by deprivation quintile from most deprived (quintile 1) to least deprived (quintile 5).
      • You can hover over each bar to see the data as a percentage of the total too.
      The map shows you how many admissions, patients, or costs in the most deprived quintile across ICBs in England. The data is colour coded: worse outcomes are darker blue.
      • You can hover over each ICB to see the name of the ICB and the data values in that area.

Unique filters

  • Date Period
  • Admission Type – All, Elective, Emergency, 30-Day Readmission
  • Patient Demographic – Age Group, Ethnicity
    Note this filter only works on the visualisation at the bottom of the dashboard

Key definitions

  • Diagnosis Position – Primary diagnosis is the diagnosis which brought a patient into hospital. Secondary diagnosis position is an existing health condition that is not the main reason for the current healthcare (i.e. underlying chronic condition). All diagnosis position is where the selected diagnosis has been coded in any position within a hospital spell.  
  • Elective – the admission to hospital for treatment is from the waiting list. 
  • Emergency – non-elective admission, the admission was unpredictable/unplanned and at short notice because of clinical need. 
  • 30-day re-admission – emergency (non-elective) admission within 30 days of a previous admission. 

About the data source

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Admitted Patient Care (APC), is an NHS data set comprising details of all admissions at NHS hospitals in England. Each record in HES includes a wide range of information including details of the patient (age, gender, geographic details), when they were treated and what they were treated for. 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.

The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is produced by combining information from the seven domains of the Indices of Deprivation: Income Deprivation; Employment Deprivation; Education, Skills and Training Deprivation; Health Deprivation and Disability; Crime; Barriers to Housing and Services; Living Environment Deprivation. IMD is the official measure of relative deprivation for small areas (Lower-layer Super Output Areas) in England. Each area has a deprivation score and a deprivation rank: the larger the score, the more deprived the area and the lower its rank. Deprivation quintiles are created by converting the rankings into 5 equal sections, with Quintile 1 representing the most deprived and Quintile 5 the least deprived.

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