Healthcare Resource Group (HRG)

Change History
DSCN 2013 / 07	Mapping of ‘Main Specialty (of Consultant)’ and ‘Treatment Function’ codes for the 2011-12 HRG4 Reference Costs Grouper
DDCN 2013 / 16	Appendix F – Health Resource Groups (HRGs)
DSCN 2012 / 11	Elective Admission List Data Set (EAL Ds)
DSCN 2011 / 05	Health Resource Groups (HRG) Version 3.5
DSCN 2009 / 10	Healthcare Resource Group 4
DSCN (2007) 09 (W)	Update Healthcare Resource Group (HRG) Codes in NHS Wales Data Dictionary

This data item is / was included in the following data sets / collections between the dates shown:

Data Set / Collection	Valid From	Valid To
APC ds99	1^st April 1999	31^st March 2011
EAL ds	1^st April 1999	21^st November 2012

The Healthcare Resource Group (HRG) identified.

Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) are designed to be standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use common levels of healthcare resource.

The purpose of HRGs is to offer organisations the ability to understand their activity in terms of the types of patients they care for and the treatments they undertake. They may be used to enable the comparison of activity within and between different organisations and provide an opportunity to benchmark treatments and services to support trend analysis over time.

HRG codes can be viewed through the following link:-

WRDS (wales.nhs.uk) (NHS Wales Users Only)

Local Health Boards / Trusts are not required to submit a valid HRG version 3.5 code for activity with an episode end date on or after 1^st April 2011.

Format: 3 digits alphanumeric

Value	Meaning	Valid From	Valid To
ANN	Healthcare Resource Group (A01-U09), defined by the NHS Information Authority Centre of Classification and Coding, version 3.	1^st April 1999	31^st March 2011
000 or padded with spaces	Not applicable – episode end date after 31^st March 2011	1^st April 2011