Hospital admissions dashboards:

• Trends
• Comparator
• Referral patterns
• Occupancy
• Patient demographics

The patient demographics dashboard allows you to view hospital admissions data by different demographic data including age, gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation.

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How to use this dashboard

• The Patient Demographics dashboard presents inpatient activity by various patient demographics: age group, deprivation quintile, ethnicity, gender
• You can view how the activity for your chosen organisation and filter options is distributed across different patient populations
• Left hand side of visualisation shows Normalisation filter selected – Absolute numbers or Rate – for filters selected while right hand side of visualisation shows change since previous year
• Right hand side of visualisation shows the proportion of total Value Type selected for View By filter selected
• Use Normalisation filter Rate per 100,000 to compare areas
• Note Deprivation, Cost per Patient and Mean Length of Stay can only be looked at when Normalisation filter Absolute is selected.  

Unique filters

1. Date Period
2. Admission Type – All, Elective, Emergency (Default), 30-Day Readmission
3. View by – Age Group, Deprivation, Ethnicity, GenderThe Patient Demographics dashboard presents inpatient activity by various patient demographics: age group, deprivation quintile, ethnicity, gender

Key definitions

• Admissions – number of spells of care, total continuous stay of a patient using a hospital bed after admission to hospital, can be made up of multiple episodes, including critical care. 

• Bed days – total duration of all spells of care, duration between admission date and final episode discharge date. 

• Cost – cost of entire spell of care, calculated using national tariff cost for the spell, not cost of procedure or diagnosis but reimbursement given to provider from ICS. Further information on the national tariff/ NHS Payment scheme can be found here.

• Cost per patient – calculated by dividing the cost of the spell by the number of patients. 

• 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. 

• Episode – time a patient spends under continuous care of a consultant/healthcare professional. Multiple episodes make up a spell, i.e. an admission.  

• Mean length of stay – average spell length, in days, calculated by dividing the number of bed days by the number of spells. 

• Patients – number of distinct patients, a patient can come into hospital multiple times for the same diagnosis. 

• Spell – total time a patient spends in hospital/under the care of the physician(s), each spell can have one or more episodes. 

• 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.

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