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Acute discharge situation report

Daily returns are collected from acute trusts through the COVID-19 acute daily discharge situation report (sitrep) and include data on daily discharges from acute settings.

The publication contains management data which has been set up for COVID-19 incident management and collected on a rapid turn-round basis from the NHS. The speed of the collection only permits minimal validation to be undertaken but the data is considered ‘fit-for-purpose’ as NHS management information.

Notes
1. Daily data are collected on discharges from acute hospitals, and a weekly snapshot is collected for information on patients who have remained in hospital since no longer meeting the criteria to reside decision was made.
2. Data definitions for data collected on discharge pathways and delay reasons changed from 27th May 2024 onwards.

Acute discharge situation report: technical specification

This guidance supports completion of the Acute discharge situation report (originally the Covid-19 emergency preparedness, resilience and response [EPRR] acute daily discharge situation report [1]) and replaces the previous technical specification that was introduced on 27 May 2022.

[1] The Covid-19 EPRR acute daily discharge situation report commenced on 8 April 2020, to collect data on the inpatient population of each type 1 acute trust and their discharge status each day, by submitting a template through the Strategic Data Collection Service portal.

Background and scope

The published monthly data file includes daily numbers of patients:

who no longer meet the criteria to reside
discharged
not discharged by the end of the day.

Monthly totals for:

discharge destinations.

Monthly averages for

delay reasons for patients with 14+ days length of stay.

And a weekly snapshot of:

number of additional days in total patients have remained in hospital since no longer meeting the criteria to reside decision was made (7+ days, 14+ days, and 21+ days length of stay).

Data are shown at regional, system and provider organisation level.

The published monthly time series file shows the metrics above at national level only.

This sitrep collects data for all inpatients 18 and over including critical care and COVID-19 positive patients but excluding paediatrics, maternity, and deceased patients. This includes data for acute trusts with a type 1 A&E department. Mental health trusts, specialised trusts (including children’s and women’s trusts) are not in scope of this collection.

Data

Pre-release access list

Acute Discharge SitRep: Pre-release access list September 2024

Contact

For further information about the published statistics, please contact us at:
Email: england.bedsanddischarges@nhs.net

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Acute discharge situation report

Acute discharge situation report: technical specification

Background and scope

Data

Excel – Monthly acute discharge situation report publication

CSV – Monthly acute discharge situation report publication

Monthly timeseries from April 2021 onwards – pre May 2024 SitRep change

Monthly timeseries from April 2021 onwards – post May 2024 SitRep change

Contact