The statistics on Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Risk Assessment in England for January 2015, produced by NHS England, were released on 2^nd April 2015 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Risk Assessment data collection – January 2015

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 January 2015, as reported in this data collection, 96% of these received a VTE risk assessment on admission, the same as December 2014.
• In January 2015, 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: 98% for the North, Midlands and East and South regions and 97% for the London region.
• In January 2015 there were 20 providers (6% of all providers) that were below the 95% threshold, with most of them (17 out of 20) between 90-95% that is, getting closer to the NHS Standard Contract threshold. This is an improvement from 32 out of 38 in December 2014.

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/