Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Risk Assessment

Introduction

The data collection was first made mandatory from June 2010, and data has been published on the DH website quarterly from the first full quarters data (July-September 2010).

The data collection asks for three items of information:

1. Number of adult hospital admissions admitted in the month risk assessed for VTE on admission to hospital according to the DH/NICE National Tool

2.  Total number of adult hospital admissions admitted in the month

3. Calculated from (1) and (2), the percentage of adult hospital admissions, admitted within the month assessed for risk of VTE on admission

Trusts are required to upload their data on VTE risk assessment onto Unify2 and signed off no later than 20 working days after the month end.

• Guidance notes for VTE Data Collection

Data downloads

• VTE data collections (published after September 2011)
• Download Detailed tables for Q2 2011-12 (XLS, 177K)
• Download Detailed tables for Q1 2011-12 (XLS, 156K)

Contact address and email

You can obtain further details about the statistics published in this section or comment on the section by emailing the team at the address below.

Responsible statistician: Alison Kirby

• Email: VTE@dh.gsi.gov.uk (opens new window)