HES Augmented Care Periods (HESAPC_ACP) Dataset

HES Augmented Care Periods (HESAPC_ACP) Dataset#

Last modified: 29 Jul 2025

People admitted into an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or High Dependency Unit (HDU) in NHS hospitals in England.

1. Summary#

This dataset is a subset of the HES Admitted Patient Care (APC) dataset and was retired in 2006. It includes information about patients admitted to intensive care settings.

Dataset Descriptor Dataset-specific Information
Name of Dataset in TRE NHSE_HESAPC_ACP
Citation (APA) Data Services, NHS England (NHSE). (2024). NHS England: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Augmented Care Periods (ACP) Dataset. UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC). https://doi.org/10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00365-03
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Series NHS England
Owner NHS England
Temporal Coverage in the TRE 04/1997 - 12/2006
Geographical Coverage England
Participant Count 3102
Number of Variables 123
Number of Observations 3277
Key Link https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-tools-and-services/data-services/hospital-episode-statistics
Keywords Inpatients, NHS hospitals
Latest Extract Date 2024-04-26
Specific Restrictions to Data Use None
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2. Metrics#

Click on the plus sign to see the number of participants represented in each dataset.

Table 2: Participants from each LPS represented in the HESAPC_ACP dataset in the UK LLC TRE. Note: Individual cohort counts of less than 10 are suppressed to <10 and excluded from total participant counts for datasets.

3. Version History#

Version 1 2 3
Name in TRE NHSE_HESAPC_ACP NHSE_HESAPC_ACP NHSE_HESAPC_ACP
Version Date 21 Dec 2022 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024
Participant Count N/A N/A N/A
Number of Variables 123 123 123
Number of Observations 2766 3053 3277
DOI 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00040-01 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00040-02 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00040-03
Change Log 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00040-01/activities 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00040-02/activities 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00040-03/activities

4. Documentation#

We are currently building a documentation storage system which will host useful documents related to datasets and data owners. We will surface these documents on Guidebook.

5. Useful Syntax#

Below we will include syntax that may be helpful to other researchers in the UK LLC TRE. For longer scripts, we will include a snippet of the code plus a link to the UK LLC GitHub repository where you can find the full scripts.