Hospital Episode Statistics (HES): Admitted patient care - other details

• Published by: NHS Digital
• Last updated: 08 July 2026
• Topic: Health
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) is a data warehouse containing records of all patients admitted to NHS hospitals in England. It contains details of every hospital stay in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.

This is the annual, national data broken down to the following levels: Responsible primary care organisation (PCT or CCG) Health Authority / region of residence Main Specialty Treatment Function Healthcare Resource Group (HRG)

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
HSCIC HES data	HTML	06 July 2015	Not available

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