Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in England, Provisional 2023/24 data

Patients undergoing elective inpatient surgery for hip and knee replacement, funded by the English NHS are asked to complete questionnaires before and after their operations to assess improvement in health as perceived by the patients themselves. This publication is for Provisional Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in England – April 2023 to March 2024.Please note that this publication covers a period where health services may still have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The completion, return and processing of questionnaire data analysed in this publication will have occurred during a period where restrictions on movement and changes to behaviours may have affected response levels. The response levels may also have been impacted by a reduction in resource at NHSE in recent years.The Score Comparison Tool and Power BI tools will be published as part of the final publication, expected in February 2025. However, all the underlying data is still available for users to access in the csv files.In analysing outcomes driven by the difference in pre-operative and post-operative questionnaires, please note that some data breakdowns or analyses are dependent on questionnaire pairs being linked to operations in Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) while others are not. As shown in the data quality section, not all questionnaire pairs link to HES, for reasons including correct patient identifiers not being returned or data inconsistencies. This means that the breakdowns that are dependent on linkage to HES, including by primary/revision, commissioner, or any casemix adjusted score comparisons will have lower totals than those not dependent on linkage to HES such as grand totals or some provider-level outputs.

Patients undergoing elective inpatient surgery for hip and knee replacement, funded by the English NHS are asked to complete questionnaires before and after their operations to assess improvement in health as perceived by the patients themselves. This publication is for Provisional Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in England – April 2023 to March 2024.Please note that this publication covers a period where health services may still have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The completion, return and processing of questionnaire data analysed in this publication will have occurred during a period where restrictions on movement and changes to behaviours may have affected response levels. The response levels may also have been impacted by a reduction in resource at NHSE in recent years.The Score Comparison Tool and Power BI tools will be published as part of the final publication, expected in February 2025. However, all the underlying data is still available for users to access in the csv files.In analysing outcomes driven by the difference in pre-operative and post-operative questionnaires, please note that some data breakdowns or analyses are dependent on questionnaire pairs being linked to operations in Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) while others are not. As shown in the data quality section, not all questionnaire pairs link to HES, for reasons including correct patient identifiers not being returned or data inconsistencies. This means that the breakdowns that are dependent on linkage to HES, including by primary/revision, commissioner, or any casemix adjusted score comparisons will have lower totals than those not dependent on linkage to HES such as grand totals or some provider-level outputs.