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Hospital Episode Statistics

Improve patient outcomes and support the NHS through powerful analysis of HES data

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CHALLENGES

Understand the complexities and variations within the NHS

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES data) brings together outpatient, inpatient and critical care activity, enabling evidence-based evaluation of how care varies across England. Insights from HES data can help to:

  • Ensure the right patients get access to the right treatments and at the right time. Identify opportunities to improve equality across demographics and geographies.
  • Understand current patient pathways and referral patterns to evidence the need for change, as well as providing additional support to implement improvements
  • Identify which Trusts would benefit most from support and facilitate the monitoring of improvements over time

OUR SOLUTION

HES data made simple, through self-service or bespoke extracts

CSL’s software Esprit³ is used by the NHS and its suppliers to analyse Hospital Episode Statistics, always as aggregated data with small numbers masked to protect patients. 

We support healthcare organisations to understand and compare care pathways, to evaluate treatments against best-practice guidelines, and to identify opportunities for joint working that improve patient care.

Our independent NHS Advisory Board oversees how the data is used, ensuring every analysis is focused on improving patient outcomes and delivering benefits back to the health and social care system. We are ISO27001 certified and one of a small number of consultancies approved by NHS England to analyse HES data.

In addition to England, we can provide similar data for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

BENEFITS

How can I use HES data to benefit patients?

There are many ways in which Hospital Episode Statistics provides benefit to patients:

Patient Estimates

Evaluate differing pathway challenges between NHS Trusts to focus resource in appropriate areas

Reduce Unmet Need

Estimate potentially undiagnosed populations to improve access to diagnosis and treatment

Capacity Challenges

Use HES insights to support the NHS in dealing with capacity challenges

Equitable Outcomes

Identify variation in care by geography, deprivation, demographics and more to help the NHS improve equality of access to treatment

OUR APPROACH

CSL ensure appropriate use of Hospital Episode Statistics (HES data)

CSL provides data in the format most appropriate to the analysis, including via consultancy, pre-aggregated extracts, or our Esprit³ tool. 

  • Compliance comes first: Data can only be used for pre-agreed permitted purposes, is processed in the UK, and always aggregated in line with NHS guidelines.
  • A comprehensive review: The data supports analysis across the care system including outpatient, inpatient and critical care episodes.
  • NHS in mind: Any analysis for NHS suppliers can be shared with NHS organisations free of charge, often supplemented by bespoke analysis on a pro-bono basis.
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