NHSOF 2.3.i: Unplanned Hospitalizations for Chronic Conditions in the UK

Unplanned hospitalisation for chronic ambulatory care sensitive conditions (NHSOF 2.3.i) measures emergency admissions for long-term conditions like diabetes and epilepsy where optimal management should occur in the community. The dataset is provided by the UK Government Digital Service under an Open Government Licence and was last updated in February 2017.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking NHS performance on reducing avoidable hospitalizations based on the indicator's purpose.
• Analyzing trends in emergency admissions for specific chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure mentioned in the description.
• Modeling factors contributing to unplanned hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions.

Strengths

• Data is provided by an authoritative government source, the UK Government Digital Service.
• Files are available in common, accessible formats like Excel and CSV.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified beyond the stated February 2017 version.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from NHS administrative records.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

The current version was updated in February 2017, with a next version due in February 2018.

Geography

Likely covers the United Kingdom, given the NHS source.