Inpatient and Daycase Admissions and First Outpatient Appointments Waiting Times (PP01W) – Details of Return

*If the count is zero for a weeks wait time band, a row for that weeks wait data should not be submitted.

This data is required to be reported for the following specialties:-

141   Restorative Dentistry               Inpatients/day case admissions only

142   Paediatric Dentistry                  Inpatients/day case admissions only

143   Orthodontics                           Inpatients/day case admissions only

315   Palliative Medicine                   

700   Mental Handicap                     

710   Mental Illness                         

711   Child & Adolescent Psychiatry  

712   Forensic Psychiatry                 

713   Psychotherapy                        

715   Old Age Psychiatry                  

The Business Services Centre (BSC) will provide data sets relating to the last day of each month to the National Assembly for Wales no later than 10 working days after the end of the month. To enable the BSC to meet this timetable, Local Health Boards /Trusts should provide data to BSC local offices no later than 7 working days after the end of the month. (Data for December will need to be supplied in a shorter timescale).

All files should be sent in the form of a comma separated text file (csv format), i.e. in which the values in each field are separated by commas, and e-mailed to: stats.health@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Files should be named as: xxxxxmmmyy.csv

Where: xxxxx = the BSC local office code

mmm = first three letters of the month to which the data relates, e.g. Apr for the first submission of data relating to waiting times at end of April.

yy = last 2 digits of the year