Admitted Patient Stocks at the end of the Reporting Period
The Department of Health requires performance management information on ELECTIVE ADMISSION LIST stocks at the end of a specified REPORTING PERIOD.
The Department of Health uses the information to help monitor national WAITING LIST trends. These are used to develop policies and indicate changes which can enable the WAITING LISTS to be managed more effectively.
This central information collection requirement is both:
provider based and is submitted by provider NHS Trusts and provider Primary Care Trusts regardless of where PATIENTS live.
and
commissioner based and is the aggregation of commissioned PATIENT activity delivered by provider NHS Trusts and provider Primary Care Trusts.
Each submission will be from one ORGANISATION in the role of provider or commissioner and should only contain data appropriate to that role i.e. must not contain a mixture of commissioning and provider role data.
COMMISSIONER OR PROVIDER STATUS INDICATOR indicates whether it is a submission from the ORGANISATION in the role of commissioner of care or provider of care.
Admitted Patient Stock Group Main Specialty
- The collection data is grouped by MAIN SPECIALTY CODE. Where there are no stocks present for a MAIN SPECIALTY CODE within the REPORTING PERIOD then no admitted patient stocks group should be recorded for it. Only one sub group is permitted per MAIN SPECIALTY CODE.
Admitted Patient Stock Sub Group Ordinary Admissions and Day Case Admissions
- Within the MAIN SPECIALTY CODE grouping, the collection is further sub grouped by WAITING FOR ADMISSION INTENDED MANAGEMENT which indicates whether the sub group is for ordinary admissions or day case admissions
- The collection is for:
all PATIENTS who are waiting to be admitted from the ELECTIVE ADMISSION LIST on the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE. This includes PATIENTS with an OFFER OF ADMISSION MADE DATE before or on the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE.
and
all PATIENTS who are waiting to be admitted by specified waiting time band from the ELECTIVE ADMISSION LIST on the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE. This includes PATIENTS with an OFFER OF ADMISSION MADE DATE before or on the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE.
and
all PATIENTS who are waiting to be admitted from the ELECTIVE ADMISSION LIST on the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE due to Self-Deferred Admission. This includes PATIENTS with an OFFER OF ADMISSION MADE DATE before or on the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE.
and
all PATIENTS who are waiting to be admitted from the ELECTIVE ADMISSION LIST who at the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE are Suspended Patients. This includes PATIENTS with an OFFER OF ADMISSION MADE DATE before or on the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE.
- It includes those PATIENTS who are classified as booked admissions and waiting list admissions; and is inclusive of private PATIENTS and PATIENTS who are Overseas Visitors.
It excludes those PATIENTS who are classified as planned admissions and for the total number of PATIENTS waiting and waiting by time band also excludes Suspended Patients.
ELECTIVE ADMISSION TYPE records the classification of the admission.
The collection is further sub grouped into a count of day case admissions and ordinary admissions .
INTENDED MANAGEMENT records whether a PATIENT is intended as an ordinary admission or a day case admission and therefore which WAITING FOR ADMISSION INTENDED MANAGEMENT it is being sub grouped within.
Summarised Admitted Patient Stock Group Intended Procedures for Ordinary Admissions
- The collection data is grouped by ADMISSION INTENDED PROCEDURE which indicates the required range of OPERATIVE PROCEDURES. Where the are no stocks present for an ADMISSION INTENDED PROCEDURE within the REPORTING PERIOD then no in-patient stocks group should be recorded for it. Only one group is permitted per ADMISSION INTENDED PROCEDURE.
- The required grouping ranges of ADMISSION INTENDED PROCEDURE are:
0001 CABG - K40-46 Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Code Range:
or
0002 PTCA - K49-50 Percutaneous Transluminal Operations Coding Range:
or
0003 Valves Coding Range K25-K35 & K38
or
0004 - Angiography Coding Range K63 & K65 - Within the ADMISSION INTENDED PROCEDURE the collection only applies to patients waiting for admission as ordinary admissions as indicated by WAITING FOR ADMISSION INTENDED MANAGEMENT.
- The collection is for:
all PATIENTS for who have an OFFER OF ADMISSION MADE DATE before or on the REPORTING PERIOD and are waiting to be admitted from the Elective Admission List
and
all PATIENTS for who have an OFFER OF ADMISSION MADE DATE before or on the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE and are waiting to be admitted by specified waiting time band from the Elective Admission List
- It includes those PATIENTS who are classified as booked admissions and waiting list admissions; and is inclusive of private PATIENTS and PATIENTS who are Overseas Visitors.
It excludes those PATIENTS who are classified as planned admissions and Suspended Patients.
ELECTIVE ADMISSION TYPE records the classification of the admission.
Data collection
The NHS report data sets to the Department of Health monthly and quarterly via Unify2, an online data collection system. Trusts and Primary Care Trusts can either enter data directly onto Unify2, or upload from spreadsheets provided to ease data input.
These returns flow through Strategic Health Authorities, and require their sign off before they are accessed by the Department of Health.
Data providers are required to submit data by the 15th working day following the month end, with publication being on the Friday following the 20th working day after month end.