Monthly report on NHS Sickness absence rates by regions, organisations and main staff groups

NHS Digital publishes this information to support winter preparedness and provide information about some activity within primary care. The publication will cover historic appointments, marked as attended or did not attend, from national to CCG coverage. The aim is to inform users, who range from a healthcare professional to an inquiring citizen, about appointments within primary care.

This publication reports information from the CSDS. This is a patient-level dataset providing information relating to NHS-funded community services. These services can include health centres, schools and mental health trusts. The data collected includes personal and demographic information, diagnoses including long-term conditions and childhood disabilities and care events plus screening activities. Statistics are published as experimental and data is shown at provider level and at a national/all submitters level also.

It’s suspected that 30 per cent of 5.4 million patients currently diagnosed with asthma in the UK have been misdiagnosed. The NHS spends £1.1 billion on asthma treatment and management annually, with 90 per cent of this cost going directly on medication, including the prescription of steroid inhalers. In this episode, we hear about a […]

A report has been published that summarises the work carried out by Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) in 2020 and early 2021 to support the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 patient safety response looks at the roll-out of two patient self-monitoring pathways, COVID Oximetry @home and COVID virtual wards, both designed to allow vulnerable […]

Hospital outpatient activity

Information on Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in England

AHSNs celebrated two wins and a ‘highly commended’ at the prestigious HSJ Patient Safety Awards in Manchester. The ceremony, held on 20 September 2021, as part of Patient Safety Congress in Manchester, is a showcase for innovative and effective projects, which help to improve patient outcomes and deliver safer care. West of England AHSN was […]

The ‘Sort & Seg’ innovation competition, launched in July 2020, set the challenge of finding ways to sort and segregate mixed radioactive waste at some of the UK’s oldest nuclear sites.

Recorded and estimated dementia diagnosis rates

Number and type of safeguarding concerns and safeguarding enquiries conducted by local authorities

Data are reported by both quinary age and single year age band and gender at GP Practice level, Clinical Commissioning Group, STP, NHS England Region and NHS England Commissioning Region. We also publish this at Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) but not split by quinary ages. This is a monthly snapshot taken from the GP Payments system maintained by NHS Digital.