Acute hospital portfolio - management of admissions 2005/2006

The management of admissions review covers both elective and emergency patients from admission (including waiting list management) through to discharge. It includes indicators of access, patients’ experience, and efficiency together with some measures of context or capacity. A survey of heart failure patients admitted as an emergency has also been carried out as part of this review.

Latest news

Scores for the management of admissions annual health check and the national report have been published on October 6th 2006, see below.

Annual health check

The management of admissions review will feed into the annual health check for most acute trusts (excludes specialist trusts that do not have an A&E department).

Click this link for management of admissions annual health check results

National report

Management of admissions national report (pdf 890kb) (opens new window)

Feedback

Data collection is complete for this review and trusts have received feedback on their individual performance from their local auditors. They have also been supplied with the provisional data via a CD. The CDs are available to trusts by emailing our helpline: acutehospitalportfoliohelpline@healthcarecommission.org.uk 

You can download the Admissions Management guide to the indicators here.

Admissions Management Guide (pdf 299kb) (opens new window)

A short guide is also available on the indicators calculated so far for the heart failure survey and on some indicators calculated separately for admissions units and A&E departments.

Heart Failure Guide (pdf 44kb) (opens new window)

Emergency Assessment Guide (pdf 116kb) (opens new window)

A report tool has also been issued for the heart failure survey which enables trusts to analyse their own data. It can be downloaded here:

Heart Survey Tool Issue (xls 371kb) (opens new window)

Some of the indicators from the heart failure survey will feed into the Heart failure improvement review.

More information about the heart failure improvement review

Topic guides and data collection forms

Information for Trusts - Admissions Management provides further information on the review. The Lead Director guidance - Admissions Management provides data collection guidance for the trust lead for this topic. Both are available to download below.

Acute Hospital Portfolio Admissions Management Information for Trusts (doc 371kb) (opens new window)

Acute Hospital Portfolio- Admissions Management Lead Director Guidance (doc 248kb) (opens new window)

The data collection phase of the review was September and October 2005. The set-up and data collection forms and tools for completing the questions that were used can be downloaded below.

Acute Hospital Portfolio Admissions Management Lead Director Setup form (doc 767kb) (opens new window)

Acute Hospital Portfolio Admissions Management A&E Form (pdf 30kb) (opens new window)

Acute Hospital Portfolio Admissions Management Admissions Unit Form (pdf 60kb) (opens new window)

Acute Hospital Portfolio Admissions Management Information Form v4 updated 17/10/05 (pdf 38kb) (opens new window)

Acute Hospital Portfolio Admissions Management Bed Survey Form (pdf 239kb) (opens new window)

Acute Hospital Portfolio Admissions Management Heart Failure Form (pdf 50kb) (opens new window)

Acute Hospital Portfolio Admissions Management Lead Director Form v2 updated (pdf 64kb) (opens new window)

Acute Hospital Portfolio - Calculating Percentiles (xls 35kb) (opens new window)

Acute Hospital Portfolio Admissions Management Length of Stay Tool v3 updated 18/10/05 (xls 338kb) (opens new window)

The files used for data submission were webforms with the exception of the bed and heart failure surveys. Trusts that supplied data can still see their webforms using the link below and entering their username and password as before.

Link to webforms (opens new window)

Please click on the link below for copies of the Modernisation Agency documents.

Admissions Management - Modernisation Agency Documents

Queries

If you have any queries about the Acute Hospital Portfolio please email: acutehospitalportfoliohelpline@healthcarecommission.org.uk

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