§ Lord Chanasked Her Majesty's Government:
What data they have collected on the performance of hospitals in their duty to collect and use ethnic group data of all admitted patients in England. [HL1921]
§ Lord Hunt of Kings HeathThe performance of hospitals in collecting ethnicity is measured by the Data Quality Indicator relating to admitted in-patient hospital statistics and published on the Hospital Episode Statistics website. Ethnic category also forms part of a data quality reporting tool made available on a monthly basis to regional offices.
The ethnicity code contained a valid value in approximately 64 per cent of records in the 2000–01 Hospital Episode Statistics dataset.