Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment
The number and proportion of admitted adult patients in England who have been risk assessed for VTE.
From April 2017 NHS Improvement became responsible for publishing the official statistics for VTE.
NHS providers are required to collect data on VTE risk assessments each month however, you only need to submit the data quarterly, at the end of each quarter.
The data collection asks for the following:
- the number of adults admitted as inpatients in the month, who have been risk assessed for VTE on admission to hospital using the criteria in the National VTE risk assessment tool
- the total number of adult inpatients admitted in the month
- the percentage of adult hospital admissions, admitted within the month assessed for risk of VTE on admission
You are required to upload your data on VTE risk assessment onto the Strategic Data Collection Service and it must be signed off no later than 20 working days after the month end.
Guidance for VTE data collection
Nationally-mandated quality requirements, with associated financial consequences, were introduced in relation to VTE assessment (previously a national CQUIN indicator) in the 2014/15 NHS Standard Contract. Follow these links for technical guidance:
- The
latest NHS standard contract
- NHS Standard Contract 2017/18 - 2018/19 technical guidance
- NHS Improvement VTE Guidance January 2018
- NHS Improvement VTE Guidance 2019/20
This section of the Statistics Code of Practice contains details of the data revisions policy.
Publications calendar
| Data period | Deadline date | Publication date |
| Q3 2017/18 | 29 January 2018 | 2 March 2018 |
| Q4 2017/18 | 27 April 2018 | 1 June 2018 |
| Q1 2018/19 | 27 July 2018 | 4 September 2018 |
| Q2 2018/19 | 27 October 2018 | 4 December 2018 |
| Q3 2018/19 | 31 January 2019 | 1 March 2019 |
| Q4 2018/19 | 26 April 2019 | 4 June 2019 |
| Q1 2019/20 | 26 July 2019 | 4 September 2019 |
| Q2 2019/20 | 25 October 2019 | 4 December 2019 |
| Q3 2019/20 | 31 January 2020 | 3 March 2020 |
| Q4 2019/20 | 24 April 2020 | 4 June 2020 |
Data publications
- Data publications for 2018-19
- Data publications for 2017-18
- Data publications for 2016-17 (revised quarter 3 and quarter 4 data)
- Data publications for 2016-17
- Data publications for 2015-16
- Data publications for 2014-15
- Data publications for 2013-14
- Data publications for 2012-13
- Data publications from 2010-11 quarter 2 to 2011-12 quarter 4