This set of quarterly statistics on Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Risk Assessment in England, produced by NHS England, was released on 6th September 2013 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
 

Key Points

The key results for data collected on the number and proportion of VTE Risk Assessments carried out on adult admissions to NHS funded acute care are as follows:

• Of the 3.5 million adult patients admitted to NHS funded acute care between July and September 2013, as reported in this data collection, 96% of these received a VTE risk assessment on admission, similar to 95% in Quarter 1 2013/14.
• In Quarter 1 2013/14, the proportion of admissions receiving a VTE risk assessment was slightly lower for NHS acute care providers (96%) than IS providers (98%), with NHS acute care providers carrying out around 97% of all VTE risk assessments.
• All the NHS regions (London, North of England, South of England, Midlands and East of England) achieved the 95% goal in this quarter.
• In Quarter 2 2013/14, 83% of the providers carried out a VTE risk assessment for 95% or more of their admissions, similar to 82% in Quarter 1 2013/14.

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VTE-Pre-Release-Access-List-Q2-2013-14 (PDF,19KB)
VTE-Commentary-Q2-2013-14 (PDF, 158KB)
VTE-Press-Notice-Q2-2013-14 (PDF, 86KB)
VTE-Risk-Assessment-Q2-2013-14 (XLS,103KB)
VTE-Risk-Assessment-Q2-2013-14 (CSV,49KB)

For more information see the VTE Risk Assessment page.

Contact Us
You can obtain further details about the statistics published in this section or send in your comments by emailing the team at the address below.
Email: vte@dh.gsi.gov.uk