HES Critical Care (HESCC) Dataset

HES Critical Care (HESCC) Dataset#

Last modified: 03 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 replaced the HESAPC_ACP dataset in 2008. It includes information about patients admitted to intensive care settings. The Adult Critical Care Minimum Data Set was collected from 01/04/2008 onwards and the Neonatal and Paediatric Minimum Data Sets were collected from 01/04/2017 onwards.

Dataset Descriptor Dataset-specific Information
Name of Dataset in TRE NHSE_HESCC
Citation (APA) Data Services, NHS England (NHSE) . (2024). NHS England: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Critical Care (CC) Minimum Dataset. UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC). https://doi.org/10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00055-03
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Series NHS England
Owner NHS England, Office for National Statistics and Department of Health and Social Care
Temporal Coverage in the TRE 04/2008 - ongoing
Geographical Coverage England
Participant Count 7062
Number of Variables 33
Number of Observations 13830
Key Link https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-tools-and-services/data-services/hospital-episode-statistics
Keywords Inpatients, Critical care, NHS hospitals
Latest Extract Date 2024-04-26
Specific Restrictions to Data Use None
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2. Metrics#

Table 2: Please note, individual cohort counts of less than 10 are suppressed to 0 and are therefore excluded from total participant counts for datasets

3. Version History#

Version Number 1 2 3
Name in TRE NHSE_HESCC NHSE_HESCC NHSE_HESCC
Version Date 21 Dec 2022 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024
Number of Variables 33 33 33
Number of Rows 9944 11488 13830
DOI 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00055-01 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00055-02 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00055-03

4. Documentation#

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5. Useful Syntax#

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