Hospital Admissions for Key Conditions and Procedures in England, 2004-2008

Finished Admission Episodes (FAE) counts for eight specified diagnoses and procedures at MSOA and higher geographic levels in England. The data was published by Neighbourhood Statistics, sourced from The Information Centre for health and social care (IC), and covers the period from 2004/05 to 2007/08. It is classified as administrative data.

Use Cases

• Mapping geographic disparities in hospital admissions for coronary heart disease based on the specified diagnosis categories.
• Analyzing temporal trends in elective procedures like hip and knee replacements over the 2004-2008 period.
• Modeling the incidence of accidental falls requiring hospitalization at the MSOA level.
• Comparing admission rates for cerebrovascular disease and cancer across Local Authority Districts (LADs).

Strengths

• Covers eight specific, high-impact medical conditions and procedures, including coronary heart disease, cancer, and falls.
• Provides data at the detailed MSOA geography as well as Local Authority, Regional, and National levels.
• Includes four consecutive years of data from 2004/05 to 2007/08, allowing for trend analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the source and time period.

Provenance

Source

The Information Centre for health and social care (IC), published by Neighbourhood Statistics, aggregated by Office for National Statistics.

Collection Method

Administrative data.

Time Range

2004/05 to 2007/08

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:27.220162; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England, at MSOA, Local Authority District (LAD), Government Office Region (GOR), and National levels.