HES 2014-15 Month 7 Outpatient Data Quality Note

HES 2014-15 Month 7
Outpatient Data Quality Note
Author HES Data Quality Team
Date
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19/12/2014
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HES 2014-15 Month 7 Outpatient Data Quality Note
HES 2014-15 Month 71 Outpatient Data Quality Note
The data quality note will be updated in the event of issues arising post-publication. A
summary of changes made will appear in the table below.
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Date
Summary of Update
19/12/2014
Month 7 Outpatient Data Quality Note published
Please note this data is provisional and subject to changes and revisions each month. It
should be treated as an estimate until the final National Statistics annual publications.
The following issues have been identified in the Month 7 (M7) data:
Developing data set
The outpatient data set is a developing data set which has a number of continuing issues
regarding quality and coverage of certain key fields.
HES Data Dictionary
The HSCIC is currently undertaking a review of the HES data dictionaries found online on
the HSCIC website:
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/hesdatadictionary
The review so far has identified some outdated or incomplete entries. Care is advised in
using the dictionaries until they are updated, which is planned for the near future. In the
meantime please send any data dictionary queries to [email protected] referencing
the HES data dictionaries in the message.
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Data submitted to SUS by 21 November 2014.
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Age at CDS Activity Date
Some incorrect values have been reported within this field. This may be due to technical
issues when providers submit data.
Caution is advised when using this field for some providers. However, at least 97% of values
within this field have been correctly derived. At least 99% of records contain an age which is
within 1 year of the correct age.
Age fields
Please note that due to some hospital systems using either ‘01/01/1900’ or ‘01/01/1901’ as a
default date of birth, there are a high number of records that contain age fields with values of
‘113’ or ‘114’
Impact: These field values should be interpreted with caution.
Operative Procedure fields
OPCS codes: codes no longer included for OPCS 4.7
OPCS 4.7 has been introduced into HES for the 2014-15 data year. Amongst the changes
in OPCS 4.7 are a number of codes that are no longer used.
It has been decided to retain these retired codes for data analysis while Providers adjust to
the transition of submitting the 4th Edition codes.
This will continue to be reviewed until it is decided that these codes no longer need to be
shown. The retired codes are listed in the table below:
OPCS codes retired in OPCS 4.7
Code Description in HES 2014-15
R031
Retired OPCS 4.6 code - not valid in OPCS 4.7: Early selective feticide
R032
Retired OPCS 4.6 code - not valid in OPCS 4.7: Late selective feticide
R038
R039
X153
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Retired OPCS 4.6 code - not valid in OPCS 4.7: Other specified selective
destruction of fetus
Retired OPCS 4.6 code - not valid in OPCS 4.7: Unspecified selective destruction
of fetus
Retired OPCS 4.6 code - not valid in OPCS 4.7: Excision of ovotestis
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Known provider issues:
Coverage issues
The following organisations have shortfalls; their data should be interpreted with caution.
Organisations with shortfalls / missing data
Organisation name
Org.
code
Months
affected
Approx. total
no. of
records
missing
3VH Ltd
8HP46
Apr - Oct
1,400
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS
Trust
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
RBS
Oct
17,108
RRP
Aug - Oct
5,925
RFF
Oct
25,010
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
RWX
Aug - Oct
40,528
Braintree Community Hospital
NNQ01
Jun - Oct
33,247
Care UK Datacentre - Reading 2E2 Ltd
NTPD1
Jul
NNF
Jun - Oct
2,145
NQT56
May - Oct
230
RYG
Aug - Sept
8,795
NR505
Sept - Oct
150
RDY
Sept
11,115
RWR
Sept - Oct
6,174
RP7
Oct
2,488
RRD
Apr - Oct
17,835
RP1
Aug
One Health Group Ltd
NTX01
Apr - Oct
2,154
One Medicare
NPR11
Jul, Sept
42
Optegra Yorkshire Eye Hospital
NNH02
Aug, Oct
1,212
Pain Management Solutions - Oaks Park Pcc
NY601
Aug
2,672
Provide
NQA
Sept - Oct
9,480
Scrivens Ltd
NXX
Apr - Oct
441
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
RK5
Oct
43,674
Specsavers Hearcare Group Ltd
NYN
Apr
1,000
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation
Trust
Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
RJ7
Jun
13,824
RXX
Jun - Oct
15,975
RMP
Apr - Jun
90,270
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
RX3
Jul - Oct
35,021
The Bridges Medical Centre
NPR13
Jul - Oct
181
The Grange Medical Centre
NQTMB
Sept
39
City Healthcare Partnership CIC
Conquest Hospital
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
Derriford Hospital Clinic
Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation
Trust
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation
Trust
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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The Physiotherapy Centre
NFF01
Apr - Oct
1,258
The Spencer Wing (Ramsgate Road)
NN801
Aug - Oct
3,801
The Vale Community Hospital
AAH02
Apr
31
WRS PMS Plus Limited
NEQ01
Aug
920
Duplicate records
Tetbury Hospital Trust (AAH01)
The Vale Community Hospital (AAH02)
The above providers have doubled the number of records submitted with respect to previous
periods. This is not a real increase; it is due to duplicate data being submitted to SUS.
Impact: Caution is advised when using records from these trusts.
Incomplete fields
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (RYG)
This Provider has extremely low counts or no values for the following fields:
Postcode of patient (HOMEADD)
Local patient identifier (LOPATID)
NHS number (NEWNHSNO)
Person Birth Date (DOB)
This will affect all derived fields as well.
Impact: Caution is advised when using the fields from this Provider and should be
taken in account when using the fields at national or regions levels.
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