Notes:
This is the number of NHS PATIENTS admitted to a Hospital Provider Spell of an NHS provider within the REPORTING PERIOD for planned treatment activity for a particular ADMISSION INTENDED PROCEDURE.

That is where the ORGANISATION TYPE of the Health Care Provider ORGANISATION is classification c 'NHS Trust' or x 'Primary Care Trust' and the OPCS-4 code as recorded by the CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION CODE of the OPERATIVE PROCEDURE is within the group range of ADMISSION INTENDED PROCEDURE.

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	ADMITTED PATIENT NHS ADMISSIONS