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The entire contents of the HESonline website and the individual articles and other items published therein are protected by copyright. The HESonline website is made available on the terms given in this area.

You are granted a license to access and use the HESonline website for your personal research and/or informational purposes. The rights granted under this agreement cannot be transferred, sold, or rented to anyone else.

You may not redistribute, rent, lend, sell, or modify any materials from the HESonline website, or create derivative works based on materials in the HESonline website without the prior written permission of The NHS Information Centre (Email: [email protected]). We ask that you do not remove any copyright notices or other notices contained in materials retrieved from the HESonline website.

You may download or print individual documents or other items from the materials in the HESonline website. Multiple downloading of the same documents and/or archiving of materials from the HESonline website, and the creation of multiple copies of individual documents for research and/or instructional use are prohibited. For permissions to copy beyond that permitted please contact The NHS Information Centre (Email: [email protected]).

Any use of the HESonline website materials in whole or in part should include customary bibliographic citation, including author attribution, date, publication/document title, The Health and Social Care Information Centre, and the URL https://www.hesonline.org.uk

We will make electronic access to the HESonline website available via our server to you without charge by us. You are responsible for all charges associated with accessing the HESonline website, including any computer equipment, telephone or internet connections, and access software. The hours of availability will be determined by us and may be changed without notice. We reserve the right to refuse access to any individual and network.

The NHS Information Centre are to ensure that the information on this site is correct, but do not give any express or implied warranty as to the accuracy of the information.

The HESonline website and the materials included therein are provided on an "as is," "as available" basis and The NHS Information Centre disclaim all warranties, including those expressed or implied. Use of the HESonline website is at your own risk, and access may be interrupted and may not be error-free.

The NHS Information Centre will not be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages or punitive damages arising out of:

• your use or inability to use the HESonline website
• any errors or omissions in the materials included in the HESonline website
• the contents of the HESonline website
• the contents of any other sites on the Internet which may be linked to the HESonline website or any material of third parties that may be accessed through The NHS Information Centre website.

We reserve the right to modify the terms of this Agreement at any time.

A manual version of this Agreement is available from The NHS Information Centre (Email: [email protected]).

Re-use of information for commerical purposes

The copyright to the information we are disclosing is held by the NHS Information Centre. The NHS Information Centre has suspended the application of re-use licence fees as a consequence of government policy ('Making Public Data Public'), so you may re-use this information free of charge. Please ensure that the following copyright statement is included within your documents: 'Copyright � 2010 Re-used with the permission of The Health and Social Care Information Centre. All rights reserved.' Please also use the citation logo available for download from The IC's website.

Responsible statistician

The responsible statistician for the content on HESonline is Chris Dew, HES/SUS Analysis (Service) Section Head ([email protected], 0845 300 6016), unless otherwise stated.