General hospitals casenote audit

The data were first published in 2024 in the National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals 2023-2024 Round 6 National Report. Data are provided at a hospital level and relate to patients with a dementia diagnosis or concerns about cognition, admitted to hospital for 24 hours or longer, between 09/08/2023 and 26/11/2023.

Casenote audit data table

Annual Dementia Statement (ADS)

The data were first published on 12/12/2024. Data are provided at hospital level and relate to care provision and monitoring of the quality of care for people with dementia.

ADS data table

Casenote audit

The data were first published in 2024 in the National Audit of Dementia Spotlight Audit in Memory Assessment Services 2023/2024 Report. Data are provided at a service level and relate to patients seen for initial assessment between January and August 2023.

Casenote audit data table

Organisational checklist

The data were first published in 2024 in the National Audit of Dementia Spotlight Audit in Memory Assessment Services 2023/2024 Report. Data are provided at a service level and relate to the organisational structure and provisions.

Organisational checklist data table

General hospitals casenote audit

The data were first published in 2023 in the National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals 2022-2023 Round 5 Audit Report. Data are provided at a hospital level and relate to patients with a dementia diagnosis or concerns about cognition, admitted to hospital for 24 hours or longer, between 19/09/2022 and 14/10/2022 (with some extensions to 03/01/2023).

Casenote audit data table

Annual Dementia Statement (ADS)

The data were first published on 10/08/2023. Data are provided at hospital level and relate to care provision and monitoring of the quality of care for people with dementia.

ADS data table

This data was first published in 2022 in the National Audit of Dementia Memory Assessment Services Spotlight Audit 2021. Data are provided at a hospital level and relate to patients that were the pathway to a dementia diagnosis between 01/01/2021 and 31/08/2021.

View the Memory Assessment Data Table

The data contained in this CSV file were first published in February 2020 in the ' Hospital Initiated prescription of psychotropic medication for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: Spotlight audit 2019'. Data are provided at a hospital level and relate to patients that had:

• A diagnosis of dementia
• Admitted to hospital for 24 hours or longer
• Had at least one prescription of psychotropic medication
• Discharged from hospital between 1 February and 30 April 2019.

Data table (England and Wales)

Hospital level anonymised results

The data were first published in 2019 in the National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals 2018-2019: Round Four Audit Report. Data are provided at a hospital level and relate to patients that had a diagnosis of dementia, and were discharged from hospital between 01/04/2018 and 30/06/2018.

• Casenote audit data table (England)
• Casenote audit data table (Wales)
• Organisational checklist data table

The data contained in this CSV file were first published in August 2018 in the Spotlight Audit 2017-2018 report 'Assessment of Delirium in Hospital for People with Dementia'. Data are provided at a hospital level and relate to patients that had a diagnosis or known history of dementia, and were discharged from hospital in April 2017.

Data table (England and Wales)

• Delirium spotlight (Hospital level anonymised results)

The data contained in the CSV file were first published in July 2017 in the National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals 2016-17, third Round of Audit Report (PDF).  Data are provided at a hospital level and relate to patients that had a diagnosis or known history of dementia, and were discharged from hospital between 01/04/2016 and 30/06/2017.

Data tables (England and Wales)

• Case note audit data table for England & Wales - identifiable individual hospitals' results
• Case note audit data table for England - identifiable individual hospitals' results
• Case note audit data table field description
• Organisational checklist data - identifiable individual hospitals' results
• Organisational checklist field description

Other resources

• Inter-rater reliability analysis (PDF)

The data contained in the CSV file were first published in July 2013 in the National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals 2012-13. Second Round Audit Report and Update (PDF).

Data are provided at a hospital level and relate to patients that had a diagnosis or known history of dementia, and were discharged from hospital between 01/09/2011 and 28/02/2012.

Reliability analysis

• Case note audit - reliability analysis (PDF) for Round 2.

Data tables (England and Wales)

• Case note audit data table for England - identifiable individual hospitals' results
• Case note audit data table field description
• Case note audit data table for England and Wales - identifiable individual hospitals' results
• Organisational checklist data table for England and Wales - identifiable individual hospitals' results.

Comparison of results between first and second rounds of audit

• Full sample of hospitals (PDF) - includes amalgamated results from hospitals that participated in both or only one of these rounds
• Selected sample of hospitals (PDF) - includes amalgamated results from hospitals that only participated in both rounds of audit.

• Core audit modules (PDF) - presents data collected in the organisational checklist and case note audit
• Anonymised case note audit results - individual hospital results by region
• Enhanced audit modules (PDF) - presents data collected in the ward organisational checklist, environmental checklist, staff questionnaire and carer/patient questionnaire.
• Inter-rater reliability analysis (DOC)