| Description: | Main speciality of consultant (recoded) |
| Category: | Health-related outcomes ⏵ Hospital inpatient ⏵ Summary Administration |
| Health outcomes + Linked health outcomes |
| Participants | 416,625 | Value Type | Categorical (multiple) | Sexed | Both sexes | Debut | Jun 2013 | |||
| Item count | 1,497,678 | Item Type | Data | Instances | Singular | Version | Apr 2024 | |||
| Stability | Ongoing | Strata | Primary | Array | Yes (20) | Cost Tier | dX o1 s1 |
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| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Accident and emergency (A&E) | 53569 |
| Acute Internal Medicine | 11487 |
| Adult mental illness | 4459 |
| Allied health professional episode | 2067 |
| Anaesthetics | 16222 |
| Audiological medicine | 20 |
| Blood transfusion | 3 |
| Cardiology | 69532 |
| Cardiothoracic surgery | 15597 |
| Chemical pathology | 407 |
| Child and adolescent psychiatry | 6 |
| Clinical cytogenics and molecular genetics | 0 |
| Clinical genetics | 41 |
| Clinical haematology | 12499 |
| Clinical immunology and allergy | 564 |
| Clinical neuro-physiology | 42 |
| Clinical oncology/ Radiotherapy | 18322 |
| Clinical pharmacology | 1513 |
| Clinical physiology | 56 |
| Community Sexual And Reproductive Health | 0 |
| Community health services | 23 |
| Community medicine | 486 |
| Critical care medicine | 4262 |
| Dental medicine | 121 |
| Dermatology | 28924 |
| Ear, nose and throat (ENT) | 42140 |
| Endocrinology | 14639 |
| Endodontics | 8 |
| Forensic psychiatry | 48 |
| Gastroenterology | 135949 |
| General Dental Practice | 0 |
| General Medical Practice | 1156 |
| General medicine | 173545 |
| General pathology | 178 |
| General practice other than maternity | 229 |
| General practice with maternity function | 542 |
| General surgery | 215214 |
| Genito-urinary medicine | 104 |
| Geriatric medicine | 41978 |
| Gynaecology | 77659 |
| Haematology | 1836 |
| Histopathology | 45 |
| Immunopathology | 93 |
| Infectious diseases | 7526 |
| Joint Consultant Clinics | 0 |
| Learning disability | 28 |
| Medical Virology | 8 |
| Medical microbiology | 90 |
| Medical oncology | 12006 |
| Medical opthalmology | 23 |
| Microbiology And Bacteriology | 0 |
| Midwifery | 1916 |
| Nephrology | 7769 |
| Neurology | 14299 |
| Neuropathology | 2 |
| Neurosurgery | 15282 |
| Non-UK Provider | 34 |
| Not known | 2271 |
| Nuclear medicine | 94 |
| Nursing episode | 3986 |
| Obstetrics | 20663 |
| Obstetrics And Gynaecology | 0 |
| Obstetrics: AN (outpatients) | 10 |
| Obstetrics: PN (outpatients) | 0 |
| Occupational medicine | 0 |
| Old age psychiatry | 1538 |
| Ophthalmology | 86113 |
| Oral and maxillo facial surgery | 7003 |
| Oral surgery | 23949 |
| Orthodontics | 11 |
| Paediatric cardiology | 145 |
| Paediatric dentistry | 30 |
| Paediatric neurology | 8 |
| Paediatric surgery | 77 |
| Paediatrics | 187 |
| Pain management | 1087 |
| Palliative medicine | 1723 |
| Periodontics | 5 |
| Plastic surgery | 45503 |
| Prosthodontics | 13 |
| Psychotherapy | 17 |
| Public health dental | 1 |
| Public health medicine | 45 |
| Radiology | 8532 |
| Rehabilitation | 2591 |
| Respiratory medicine | 40409 |
| Restorative dentistry | 377 |
| Rheumatology | 13018 |
| Special Care Dentistry | 5 |
| Sport And Exercise Medicine | 0 |
| Surgical dentistry | 34 |
| Trauma and orthopaedics | 150957 |
| Tropical medicine | 115 |
| Urology | 82509 |
| Vascular Surgery | 81 |
| Allergy | 3 |
Note that the original information was obtained from a variety of external sources, some of which used overlapping and contradictory coding schemes. This field has been re-coded to remove such data conflicts.
This field corresponds to the field MAINSPEF_UNI on the HESIN table; see the Inpatient Data Dictionary (Resource 141140) in Category 2000 for information about the HESIN table.
In order to conduct detailed analyses of this data using the source information, researchers will need to gain access to the HESIN table by adding Field 41259 to their basket.
| Field ID | Description | Relationship |
|---|---|---|
| 41207 | Main speciality of consultant (polym ... | Current Field is a recoded version of polymorphic Field 41207 |
| Preview | Name | Res ID |
|---|---|---|
 | Mapping inpatient hospital data across England, Scotland and Wales | 146641 |
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