The statistics on Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Risk Assessment in England for October 2014, produced by NHS England, were released on 9^th January 2015 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Risk Assessment data collection – October 2014

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 1.2 million adult patients admitted to NHS funded acute care in October 2014, as reported in this data collection, 96% of these received a VTE risk assessment on admission, the same as September 2014.
• In October 2014, the proportion of admissions receiving a VTE risk assessment was slightly lower for NHS acute care providers (96%) than for Independent Sector providers (99%), 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 month: all at 97%.
• In October 2014 there were 35 providers (11% of all providers) that were below the 95% threshold, with most of them (29 out of 35) between 90-95%, that is, getting closer to the NHS Standard Contract threshold.

The full data tables can be found on the NHS England website:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/vte/vte-risk-assessment-2014-15/