HES Accident & Emergency (HESAE) Dataset

HES Accident & Emergency (HESAE) Dataset#

1. Summary#

Dataset descriptor Dataset-specific information
Name of dataset in TRE HESAE
Other name None
Temporal coverage 01/04/2007 to 31/03/2020
TRE temporal coverage 01/04/2007 to 31/03/2020
Keywords A&E patients, NHS hospitals
Geographical coverage England
Data resolution A&E attendance
Specific restrictions to data use None
Owner NHS England
Short description Dataset of patients attending Accident and Emergency Departments (including minor injury units and walk-in centres) in England. A record represents one attendance.
Frequency of update Annually
Key link https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-tools-and-services/data-services/hospital-episode-statistics
Number of variables 156
Number of observations 1565879
Participant count 191915
Date of last extract 2024-04-26

2. Metrics#

The tables below summarise the HESAE dataset in the UK LLC TRE.

Table 1 The number of participants from each LPS that are represented in the HESAE dataset in the UK LLC TRE
(Note: numbers relate to the most recent extract of NHS England data)

LPS Participant count
ALSPAC 4970
BCS70 4436
BIB 23568
ELSA 5665
EPICN 11054
EXCEED 7080
FENLAND 7608
GLAD 57445
MCS 14903
NCDS58 4914
NEXTSTEP 4539
NIHRBIO_COPING 12488
NSHD46 2168
TEDS 6348
TRACKC19 9325
TWINSUK 10285
UKHLS 5119
TOTAL 191915

3. Helpful 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 Git where you can find the full script.