Thursday 25 April 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_6337
Date Request Received: 21/10/2021 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 15/11/2021 00:00:00
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Request Summary: HSJ Inquiry - Elective care tracker
Request Category: Media
| Question Number 1: NHS trusts elective care tracker systems record instances when a patient is removed from a waiting list (eg elective admission list or appointment waiting list), and the reason for this removal (see for example https://datadictionary.nhs.uk/attributes/elective_admission_list_removal_reason.html). For each of the separate periods (1) 2017-18, (2) 2018-19, (3) 2019-20, (4) 2020-21, and (5) April-August 2021, please provide information in table attached | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please find the answers in the attached spreadsheet. Please note the following point about this data: The Trust Incomplete Waiting List (PTL) figures in question 1 are the reported PTL size at the end of Month 1 for each financial year. As the PTL is a snapshot at the end of each month, we aren’t able to provide an aggregate or average figure for this question. The PTL is a count of all active RTT Periods on both Admitted and Non-Admitted pathways. The figures for question 2 are the reported total number of stopped RTT periods throughout the year for each financial year, for both Admitted and Non-Admitted pathways. For both questions 1 and 2, this data is available on the NHS website for published RTT data, therefore requestors are able to obtain this information themselves directly from the site, rather than requesting via the Trust. The figures in question 3 are not directly related to questions 1 and 2 as the Reason for Removal is recorded against an Access Plan (Waiting List) Entry, rather than an RTT period. A patient may have more than one APE per RTT period. These figures cover both Inpatient and Outpatient Access Plan Entry removals. The NHS Data Dictionary definition of Elective Admission List Removal Reason outlines 4 national codes and reasons, but there are a lot of local variations of the reasons in our EPR, as per the table below. https://datadictionary.nhs.uk/attributes/elective_admission_list_removal_reason.html Many values in question 3 are <=5 therefore they have been removed in line with Information Governance guidelines. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 6337 Q1.docx 10177 - FOI 6337 - HSJ Inquiry - Elective Care Tracker.xlsx | |
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