PEDW Data Online

The annual PEDW data tables are now available for download for 2001/02 to 2015/16. They consist of headline figures relating to hospital admissions (inpatient, day case and maternity admissions) in Portable Document Format (PDF); and Microsoft Excel tables containing separate analyses by diagnosis, operation, specialty, Healthcare Resource Group (HRG), of care (NHS Trusts prior to Oct 2009, Local Health Board of treatment thereafter), Local Health Board (LHB) of patient’s usual residence and regular attendance information.

Where your request cannot be satisfied through the available data, specific requests for data can be obtained through the NHS Wales Informatic Service bespoke analysis service. This service is provided to the Welsh Assembly Government, NHS Wales and others. For information other than that already available via this website, please contact the Analysis Team at pdit.requests@wales.nhs.uk and detail your requirements as fully as possible.

The Patient Episode Database for Wales (PEDW) was implemented in April 1991. The database contains all inpatient and day case activity undertaken in NHS Wales plus data on Welsh residents treated in English Trusts. In 1997 the mandated inpatient and day case dataset changed to Admitted Patient...

The IM&T strategy for NHS Wales - Better Information - Better Health states that "from April 1999 the Patient Episode Database for Wales (PEDW) will be used as the main source of comparative inpatient and day case data." One of the key developments in the NHS plan is the development...

Individual records are submitted to PEDW on the basis of a patient's consultant episode; that is the time an admitted patient spends in the continuous care of one consultant within one NHS provider. If the patient is transferred to the care of another consultant, either in the same or another...