Monthly HES data

Why publish monthly data?

Hospital episode statistics (HES) admitted patient care and outpatients data is now being published on a monthly basis. These data are provisional and they are subject to changes and revisions each month. They should be treated as estimates until the final National Statistics Annual Publications.

The NHS Information Centre (The NHS IC) places certain analysis from monthly HES data into the public domain, via the HESonline website. This consists of:

• high level summary of key figures
• headline figures for special topics
• monthly time series
• a data quality note
• a data completeness note
• background information about the monthly data.

What will be published?

Provisional monthly data is only available for a given year until the final annual figures have been published for that year. (A monthly breakdown of the final annual figures will still be available.)

A chart containing 25 months of data is published each month containing finalised annual HES data for previous years as well as monthly provisional data for the latest year. Special topics are also covered in each monthly publication and we welcome suggestions via the contact us section of this website as to which topics users would like to see covered in future months. The topic which is going to be included each month will be pre-announced, alongside the finalised publication date, on The NHS IC publication calendar and on the special topic page.

For more information see the inpatient and outpatient pages:

Timetable

Dates for the publication of provisional monthly HES can be found in The NHS IC's publication calendar here[http://www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/publications-calendar].