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Independent sector providers caring for NHS patientsComparative performance indicators

February 2016

Edition 20

New in this edition

In this edition, we have included comparative information about CQC inspection ratings for the first time since the new approach began in April 2015. While the initial figures make interesting reading, we would caution against widespread use just yet as the proportion of independent providers that have been inspected is significantly less than that of other providers.

Updated data

Every table included in this edition has been updated.

All the graphs and charts in this document are derived directly from data provided by independent sources including NHS England, the Health and Social Care Information Centre and the Care Quality Commission. The relevant source, including links, are given by each visualisation.

If organisations wish to refer to specific visualisations contained within this data, we would recommend that the relevant source data, together with the relevant explanatory notes as published in this document, are included in any citations.

For more information about the data underlying the visualisations in this presentation, please contact [email protected]

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ContentsIndependent sector providers caring for NHS patients......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1

Comparative performance indicators................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1

February 2016................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1

Edition 20.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1

New in this edition................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2

Independent sector performance.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Patient experience................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6

Friends and family test performance..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Friends and family test – performance of all providers.........................................................................................................................................................................................8

Friends and family test – the top performers........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 9

Friends and family test response rates................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 10

Clinical quality..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11

CQC ratings since April 2015................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 12

CQC ratings – overall ratings compared.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13

CQC ratings – overall ratings compared.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 14

Patient outcomes and safety............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15

Patient outcomes and safety............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16

Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs).................................................................................................................................................................................................. 17

PROMs – primary hip replacement.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18

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PROMs – primary knee replacement.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 23

PROMs – groin hernia...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28

Rate of assessment for VTE (blood clots)............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 31

Infection control data.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32

Efficiency indicators............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 33

Referral to treatment times................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 34

Percentage of patients waiting less than 18 weeks for treatment......................................................................................................................................................................35

Typical waiting times........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36

Average waiting times by specialty...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 38

Waiting times for 95% of patients....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 41

Diagnostic waiting times...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 43

Numbers of patients treated............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 45

Numbers of patients treated by independent providers.....................................................................................................................................................................................46

General and acute admissions............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 47

GP outpatient referrals admissions..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 48

Elective admissions and GP referrals (2).............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 49

Elective admissions and GP referrals (3).............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 50

Diagnostic tests carried out by independent sector by modality........................................................................................................................................................................51

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Independent sector performance

The NHS Partners Network is the trade association representing the widest range of independent sector providers of NHS clinical services ranging through acute, diagnostic, primary and community care, as well as dental services. Our members are drawn from both the “for profit” and “not for profit” sectors and include large international hospital groups and small specialist providers. All are committed to working in partnership with the NHS and to the values set out in the NHS Constitution.

This document gives an overview of the performance of independent sector providers of care to NHS patients. It focuses on care sectors represented by NHSPN members and the indicators available cover five broad domains of quality:

Patient experience Clinical quality Patient outcomes and safety Efficiency indicators The contribution of the sector shown by numbers of patients treated

All the visualisations shown in this document are based on publicly available data published by organisations such as NHS England, Public Health England, the Health and Social Care Information Centre and the Care Quality Commission.

Not all data collected for traditional NHS organisations and independent sector providers can be compared easily. Historic differences in the way NHS and independent sector providers have been regulated have often required independent providers to collect different information from their NHS counterparts. As the range of information is increasingly harmonised, we hope to be able to produce more comparative information published by third parties such as the organisations listed above.

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Patient experience

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Friends and family test performanceThe Government’s preferred measure of patient satisfaction, the Friends and Family Test (FFT), applies equally to traditional NHS and the independent sector. Collected monthly since April 2013, around 99% of patients would be ‘extremely likely’ or ‘likely’ to recommend independent providers compared with a national average of around 95%. At present, acute inpatient care is the only area where the FFT is collected by both independent and NHS providers however NHS England is in the process of rolling out the FFT across all NHS care. Since April, the data shown below includes results from day case patients.

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Percentage of inpatients who would recommend their provider during the past 12 months. Source: NHS England. Green bars: independent providers and blue bars: Av of all providers to NHS patients

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Friends and family test – performance of all providersIndependent providers cluster at the ‘high end’ of performance. The graph below shows the performance of all providers that collect the FFT for inpatient acute care and which produce a minimum response rate of 20% amounting to at least 20 patients per month. Green bars represent independent organisations and blue bars show NHS hospitals.

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Blue columns are NHS organisations, green columns are independent providers. Only sites with a response rate of 20% or above, that produced 20 or more responses and with actual response data are shown. Source: NHS Eng

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Friends and family test – the top performersThe graph below shows all those hospitals that scored a 100% recommendation rate (extremely likely and likely to recommend) as measured by patients in their response to the FFT for acute inpatient care. Within this group, organisations are ordered on the basis of those with the highest proportion of patients ‘extremely likely’ to recommend their providers (highest on left, lowest on right). NB some providers with an overall percentage recommendation rate below 100% may have achieved higher rates of patients ‘extremely likely’ to recommend them than those shown on this graph.

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percentage of patients 'extremely likely' to recommend.

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Friends and family test response ratesResponse rates to the FFT are used by the CQC to measure NHS Trusts’ reporting culture. On average independent providers manage response rates of above 40% compared with an England average of below 30%.

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Friends and Family Test inpatient response rates for the past 12 months. Green bars show independent providers and blue bars represents average for all organisations treating NHS patients. Source: NHS England

The data that underpins all the FFT graphs above is available at: http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/friends-and-family-test/friends-and-family-test-data/

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http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/friends-and-family-test/friends-and-family-test-data/

http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/friends-and-family-test/friends-and-family-test-data/

Clinical quality

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CQC ratings since April 2015In April 2015, the CQC began to introduce a new approach to regulating providers of healthcare.

The graphs that follow show how independent healthcare organisations compare to NHS healthcare organisations, using the CQC’s data and definitions 1.

Although the CQC began inspecting NHS organisations during 2014-15, it is still rolling out its inspections of independent providers under the new system. Consequently, a smaller proportion of independent providers have been rated compared to NHS organisations under the new system. We have therefore provided this information to members for information but would caution against using this more widely until more ratings are available.

It is possible to cut the data by service type and population group served, e.g. to examine diagnostic services or surgery. In time we plan to show data for these services, but at present there is insufficient comparative data available.

Figures for overall ratings:

Organisation type Rating Inadequate

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t Good Outstanding TotalIndependent Healthcare Org Overall 3 17 67 10 97NHS Healthcare Organisation Overall 17 120 77 3 217

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http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/how-get-and-re-use-cqc-information-and-data

CQC ratings – overall ratings compared

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Graph shows proportion of independent healthcare organisations (green) and NHS healthcare organisations (blue) achieving each rating. Source: CQC. Date: 01 Feb 16

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CQC ratings – overall ratings compared

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Graph shows proportion of independent healthcare organisations and NHS healthcare organisations achieving each rating. Source: CQC. Date: 01 Feb 16

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Patient outcomes and safety

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Patient outcomes and safety

Indicators that relate to outcomes and safety for which it is reasonable to make comparisons between independent sector organisations and their NHS counterparts include:

Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs); and Rate of assessment for VTE (blood clots)

Infection control information is also an important indicator. Because Public Health England analyses information collected for the independent sector and the NHS organisations on a different basis, its view is that like-for-like comparison should not be made. For completeness, we have published rates for independent sector providers in the pages that follow. These show that independent providers have very low rates of healthcare-acquired infections.

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Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre for a range of elective procedures: hip and knee replacements, groin hernias and varicose vein treatment.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) publishes casemix-adjusted health gain by provider each quarter. The graphs that follow are based on the most recently available 12-month period (April 2014 to March 2015, provisional data – released February 2015).

PROMs data is not published for all organisations that submit completed PROMs questionnaires. The HSCIC collects data from every organisation that offers these types of surgery as it is a national requirement that all organisations should offer PROMs questionnaires to patients eligible to participate. However, it is voluntary for patients to complete these forms and the HSCIC only publishes adjusted data for organisations that have a representative number of completed records.

The pages that follow use funnel plot data from http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19823 for two different types of PROMs scores for primary knee and hip replacements. These graphs show adjusted health gain. The original source files provided by the HSCIC should be used to identify positive and negative statistical outliers.

The Oxford Scores focus on joint function and pain and include questions about patients’ mobility and factors such as ability to navigate stairs and use transport specifically affected by the hip or knee. More information about these measures is available at http://www.isis-innovation.com/outcomes/orthopaedic/. The EQ-5DTM score, developed by the EuroQol Group, is a standardised instrument for use as a measure of health outcome and has a broader base than the Oxford scores. Its questions relate to mobility, self-care, usual life activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression. More information about the EQ-5D is available at http://www.euroqol.org. The Health and Social Care Information Centre also provides an informative guide to PROMs methodology used by the Centre, available at http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/3843/Background-information-about-PROMs.

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http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/3843/Background-information-about-PROMs

http://www.euroqol.org/

http://www.isis-innovation.com/outcomes/orthopaedic/

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19823

PROMs – primary hip replacement

The tables below show average adjusted health gain on PROMs reported by the Health and Social Care Information for independent providers compared to the national average.

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Rate of assessment for VTE (blood clots)All providers of acute adult inpatient care are required to provide information on the percentage of admitted patients who are risk-assessed for venous thromboembolism (blood clots). The graph below shows data for the past year. The average rate for independent providers is 98.9% compared with a national average of 96.0%.

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Percentage of admitted patients risk-assessed for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) by NHS (blue bars) and independent sector providers (green bars). Source: NHS England

Source: http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/vte

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http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/vte

Infection control dataInfection control information that allows direct comparisons between the NHS and independent sector is not available. In 2009, the Health Protection Agency, now part of Public Health England, which has responsibility for collecting infection-control data, published its rationale for this approach here. This is summarised on page 1 of the commentary linked below.

Despite this lack of comparative information, Public Health England data makes it clear that there are very low healthcare acquired infection rates in the independent sector.

During the twelve months between Apr 2014 and March 2015, the total number of reported infections across the entire independent estate (NHS-funded and privately funded care) was just:

No of cases

Rate per 100,000

MRSA bacteraemia 3 0.27C difficile infection 90 8.00MSSA bacteraemia 39 3.47E. coli bacteraemia 155 13.79

The number of modified bed-days2 published by Public Health England for this twelve-month period was 1,124,347.

Source: Public Health England (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-mssa-and-e-coli-bacteraemia-and-clostridium-difficile-infection-annual-data-for-independent-sector-healthcare-organisations)

2 Modified bed-days are calculated as the number of bed-days plus the number of discharges. of 51

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-mssa-and-e-coli-bacteraemia-and-clostridium-difficile-infection-annual-data-for-independent-sector-healthcare-organisations

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-mssa-and-e-coli-bacteraemia-and-clostridium-difficile-infection-annual-data-for-independent-sector-healthcare-organisations

http://www.hpa.org.uk/webc/HPAwebFile/HPAweb_C/1246607814650

Efficiency indicators

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Referral to treatment times

Referral to treatment times show that patients are treated earlier by independent sector providers compared with those treated by NHS organisations. Waiting times are an important indicator of organisational efficiency and for patients deciding where to choose treatment.

There are three ways of measuring waiting times: Those currently waiting for treatment (the incomplete pathway) How long outpatients who have been treated spent waiting in total (the non-admitted pathway) How long inpatients who have begun their treatment spent waiting in total (the admitted adjusted pathway)

In June 2015, NHS England announced that only the incomplete standard would be enforced. However, data will still be collected on all three measurements.

The incomplete standard states that 92% of patients on incomplete pathways should have been waiting no more than 18 weeks from referral.

The graphs below show that across almost all specialties, patients spend less time waiting when treated by independent providers.

Mean* and median waiting times are generally shorter across most specialties for both inpatients and outpatients treated by independent providers compared with their NHS peers.

http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/

* NB Means have been inferred from data published by NHS England. This data shows numbers of patients waiting between 1 and 2 weeks, 2 and 3 weeks, etc. up to 52+ weeks for RTT times and 13+ weeks for diagnostic waiting times. Mean values have been calculated on the assumption that patients who have been waiting between 1 and 2 weeks have waited an average of 1.5 weeks etc. Also, for those patients waiting longer than 52 weeks (RTT) or 13 weeks (diagnostics), we have used values of 52.5 (RTT) and 13.5 weeks (diagnostics) which is likely to be an underestimate. As we are looking at national trends rather than specific provider-level performance we have counted all patients when calculating means rather than excluding organisations with low volumes.

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http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/

Percentage of patients waiting less than 18 weeks for treatmentThe incomplete waiting time shows the number of patients currently waiting. The graph below shows the proportion of inpatients and outpatients currently waiting for less than 18 weeks.

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Percentage of patients waiting within 18 weeksRTT for incomplete patient pathways:

percentage of patients waiting less than 18 weeks

Source: NHS England, Monthly RTT waiting times for incomplete pathways. Blue bars show national average and green bars show independent providers.

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Typical waiting times

Median waiting times illustrate the typical experience of most patients when waiting for care. The graph below shows how long each person typically had spent waiting for treatment who were still on the waiting list in each month (the incomplete median waiting time).

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Typical waiting timesMonthly RTT waiting times

Average median waiting time of patients waiting for treatment in weeks

Source: NHS England, Monthly RTT waiting times for incomplete pathways.Blue bars show national average and green bars show independent providers.

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The graphs below show typical time spent waiting in total for treatment (median).

Jan 15 Feb 15 Mar 15 Apr 15 May 15 Jun 15 Jul 15 Aug 15 Sep 15 Oct 15 Nov 15 Dec 15 Average0.001.002.003.004.005.006.007.008.009.00

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Typical inpatient waiting timesMonthly RTT for completed admitted patient pathways – average

median waiting time in weeks

Source: NHS England, Monthly Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting times for completed admitted pathways (on an ad-justed basis). Blue bars represent national average performance and green bars show figures for independent providers.


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in weeks

Source: NHS England, Monthly RTT waiting times for completed non-admitted pathways. Includes outpatientsand patients whose waiting times were stopped without treatment. Blue bars show national average and green bars show independent providers.

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Average waiting times by specialty

The graphs below show a weighted average of inpatient and outpatient waiting times by specialty. This graph shows how long patients still waiting for treatment had already spent on the waiting list.

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Weighted average (mean) of incomplete pathway waiting times (weeks). Green bars show patients treated by inde-pendent sector organisations. Blue bars England average. All specialities shown where volumes >= 100 patients. Data

source: NHS Eng

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This graph shows total expected waiting time for inpatients before treatment begins.

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Weighted average (mean) of time spent waiting for inpatient treatment (weeks). Green bars show patients treated by independent sector organisations. Blue bars England average. All specialities shown where volumes >= 100 patients.

Data source: NHS Eng

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This graph shows typical how long outpatients typically wait before treatment.

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Weighted average (mean) of time spent waiting for outpatient treatment (weeks). Green bars show patients treated by independent sector organisations. Blue bars England average. All specialities shown where volumes >= 100 patients.

Data source: NHS Eng

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Waiting times for 95% of patients

It is likely that there will be a small number of patients for whom treatment takes a significantly longer than expected amount of time. The graphs below show the maximum waiting time for 95% of patients, i.e. the longest period that most patients can reasonably expect to have to wait.

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Waiting times for 95% of inpatientsMonthly RTT for completed admitted patient pathways – 95th

percentile waiting time (in weeks)

Source: NHS England, Monthly Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting times for completed admitted pathways (on an ad-justed basis). Blue bars represent national average performance and green bars show figures for independent providers..

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Waiting times for 95% of outpatientsMonthly outpatient RTT waiting times – 95th percentile waiting time

(in weeks)

Source: NHS England, Monthly RTT waiting times for completed non-admitted pathways. Includes outpatientsand patients whose waiting times were stopped without treatment. Blue bars show national average and green bars show independent providers.

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The graph below shows the length of time within which all but 5% of patients had been treated.


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Waiting times for 95% of patientsMonthly impcomplete RTT waiting times – 95th percentile waiting

time (in weeks)

Source: NHS England, Monthly RTT waiting times for incomplate pathways. Blue bars show national average and green bars show independent providers.

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Diagnostic waiting times

The graph below shows mean waiting times for diagnostic tests by modality. MRI scans and non-obstetric-ultrasound are the most frequently provided diagnostic tests by independent organisations.

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Chart shows mean time (weeks) spent waiting by patients for diagnostic tests for each type where vol of proceduces >= 100. Blue bars show national average waiting times. Green bars show mean waiting times

for independent providers. Source: NHS England

Source: http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/diagnostics-waiting-times-and-activity NB see note in section on referral to treatment times about the calculation of mean waiting time values

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http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/diagnostics-waiting-times-and-activity

Cancelled elective operationsOperations that are cancelled on the day of surgery for non-clinical reasons are disruptive and distressing for patients. Cancellations are also a good indicator of an organisation’s system-wide efficiency.

NHS England does not publish the total number of elective operations alongside its cancellations data so it is not possible to make a precise calculation of comparative cancellation rates, however, the data published at www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancelled-elective-operations reveals that NHS patients treated by independent sector providers experience far fewer cancellations on the day than those treated by traditional NHS organisations.

The data shows that less than 0.5% of non-clinical cancellations occur at independent providers. Also, of that small number of patients who do experience a cancellation at an independent provider, hardly any wait longer than a further 28 days for their treatment (just four patients in total in the whole of the last 12 months). Cancelled Operations (elective only)Period NHS provider non-

clinical cancellations (percentage of all cancellations)

Independent provider non-clinical cancellations (percentage of all cancellations)

Percentage of all patients still waiting for treatment after 28 days following last minute elective cancellation (NHS organisations)

Percentage of all patients still waiting for treatment after 28 days following last minute elective cancellation (Independent providers)

Quarter 4, 2014-15 (January to March 2015) 99.57% 0.43% 99.94% 0.06%Quarter 1, 2015-16 (April to June 2015) 99.31% 0.69% 99.75% 0.25%Quarter 2, 2015-16 (July to September 2015) 99.64% 0.36% 100.00% 0.00%Quarter 3, 2015-16 (October - December 2013) 99.73% 0.27% 99.64% 0.36%Average 99.56% 0.44% 99.83% 0.17%

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http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancelled-elective-operations

Numbers of patients treated

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Numbers of patients treated by independent providersElective care is critically dependent on independent sector provision.

Around 20% of all elective gastroenterology procedures and hip and knee replacements are now carried out by the independent sector. In some areas of the country this figure is far higher.

As well as NHS patients, many independent sector providers also treat large numbers of privately-funded patients as well.

The graphs in the section that follows show a steady increase in the number and proportion of procedures carried out by independent providers since 2011 when easily comparable statistics were first published. However, the overall number of NHS patients treated by independent organisations remains a small fraction of total NHS volumes.

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General and acute admissionsAnalysis of hospital activity data (http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/hospital-activity/) shows that the number of patients treated by the independent sector is steadily growing.

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13

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14

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General & acute admissions to independent providers. Jan 13 to Dec 15

Elective G&A Ordi-nary Admis-sions (FFCEs)Elective G&A Daycase Admis-sions (F-FCEs)Elective G&A Total Admis-sions (F-FCEs)

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http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/hospital-activity/

GP outpatient referrals admissionsThis data (http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/hospital-activity/) also shows steady growth in GP referrals to outpatients.

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GP outpatient referrals to independent providers. Jan 13 to Dec 15

GP Re-ferrals Made (All special-ties) GP Re-ferrals Seen (All special-ties)

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http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/hospital-activity/

Elective admissions and GP referrals (2)

Despite the growth in independent sector provision, it is clear that traditional NHS providers still dominate overall provision for NHS patients.

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Jul to Sep

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Quarterly independent sector and NHS admissions

Quarterly elective admissions to independent sector providers (green bars) and NHS organisations (blue bars). Source: NHS England

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Total GP referrals for outpatients appointments

Quarterly GP referrals for outpatients appointments. Independent sector providers (green bars) and NHS organisations (blue bars). Source: NHS England

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Elective admissions and GP referrals (3)

The overall percentage of patients treated by the independent sector has grown in accordance with the increasing number of patients choosing independent providers.

Apr to Jun 11

Jul to Sep

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2

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Elective admissions to independent sector providers as a proportion of all NHS patients

Quarterly admissions to independent sector providers as a proportion of all NHS elective activity. Source: NHS England

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Percentage GP referrals for independent sector outpatients ap-pointments

Quarterly GP referrals independent sector outpatients appointments as a proportion of all NHS elective activity. Source: NHS England

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Diagnostic tests carried out by independent sector by modality

The pie chart below shows the range of diagnostic tests provided by independent sector organisations.

Independent sector workload (all tests carried out by independent providers for which waiting times are collected) during December

2015

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