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November 2, 2010
Short course on Analysing patient data: using hospital episode statistics
Location: York, UK
Venue: Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Dates: 2nd - 3rd November 2010
Overview
The Hospital Episode Statistics contain details of all admissions to NHS hospitals and all NHS outpatient appointments in England. HES is the data source for a wide range of healthcare analysis for the NHS, government and research community. This intensive workshop introduces participants to HES data and how to handle and manipulate these very large data sets using computer software. Participants will engage in problem-solving exercises, analysing the information in highly interactive sessions.
Participants
This workshop is only offered to people from the public sector or academia and is suitable for analysts working in NHS hospitals, commissioning organisations and the Department of Health, and for health care researchers and PhD students.
Full details are available here: http://www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/short/patient-data/
