Get yearly OPCS-4 procedure code usage from Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care in England

Downloads (if not already cached) and returns the yearly summary of 4-character OPCS-4 code usage from 1st April 2012 onwards. The code usage represents the total annual count of each procedure, recorded across the primary and the secondary procedure positions. Restricted codes for which annual usage is not published have been removed.

start_date: Start date of code usage count
end_date: End date of code usage count
opcs4_code: The 4-character OPCS-4 code. Note that the punctuation from the code has been removed for compatibility with OpenCodelists.
usage: Annual count of code usage.
description: Description of the OPCS-4 Code

Usage

get_hesapc_opcs4(version = NULL)

Source

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity

Arguments

version: String, dataset version, or NULL for the latest (default)

Value

A tibble

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Filter to procedures involving "biopsy" after March 2020 (note each year runs April - March).
get_hesapc_opcs4() |>
  dplyr::filter(grepl("biopsy", description, ignore.case = TRUE) & lubridate::year(end_date) > 2020)
} # }