PEAT: Patient Environment Action Team Hospital Assessments for England

Annual assessments from 2001 to 2013 of NHS inpatient facilities in England with more than ten beds. The data includes ratings of Excellent, Good, Acceptable, Poor, or Unacceptable across three elements: Environment, Food, and Privacy & Dignity. The dataset was produced by NHS Digital under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was replaced by the Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE) programme.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in hospital environment and food quality ratings over time based on the annual assessment schedule.
• Compare performance across the three core assessment elements (Environment, Food, Privacy & Dignity) for different facilities.
• Study the transition from the PEAT programme to its successor, PLACE, based on the described replacement in 2013.

Strengths

• Annual assessments provide a consistent time series from 2001 to 2013.
• Covers all NHS inpatient facilities in England with more than ten beds, suggesting broad coverage.
• Standardized rating scale (Excellent to Unacceptable) across three defined elements.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data collection ended in 2013; freshness should be verified for contemporary applications.

Provenance

Source

NHS Digital

Collection Method

Annual assessments conducted under the Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT) programme.

Time Range

2001 to 2013

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:08.056517; data collection period ended in 2013.

Geography

England