Adult Inpatient Survey 2021
This survey looks at the experiences of adults that have been an inpatient at an NHS hospital. The survey has been running since 2002 and is published annually.
Information on this survey from other years can be found using the filter bar on the right of this page. You can contact the Coordination Centre for Mixed Methods about the Adult Inpatient Survey by email.
Design and Development
In this category, you will find documents relating to the design and development stage of the survey. This includes the survey development report detailing the full development process for the survey, ethical and information governance approvals.
Survey Materials
In this category, you will find the survey materials. These include the dissent posters which should be displayed in each trust throughout the sampling month or period.
- Accessible formats – Braille Cover Letter.docx
- Accessible formats – Easy Read Cover Letter and Questionnaire.docx
- Accessible formats – Large Print Cover Letter.docx
- Core questionnaire.docx
- Core questionnaire.pdf
- Dissent poster Arabic.pptx
- Dissent poster Bengali.pptx
- Dissent poster Bulgarian.pptx
- Dissent poster English.pptx
- Dissent poster French.pptx
- Dissent poster Gujarati.pptx
- Dissent poster Kurdish Sorani.pptx
- Dissent poster Lithuanian.pptx
- Dissent poster Polish.pptx
- Dissent poster Portuguese.pptx
- Dissent poster Punjabi.pptx
- Dissent poster Romanian.pptx
- Dissent poster Spanish.pptx
- Dissent poster Tamil.pptx
- Dissent poster Urdu.pptx
- First Mailing Letter.docx
- Multilanguage sheet.docx
- SMS Guidance.docx
- Second Mailing Letter.docx
- Third Mailing Letter.docx
Instructions and Guidance
In this category, you will find all the instruction and guidance materials needed by an NHS Trust or approved contractor to implement the survey. It also includes documents to help support NHS Trusts with the contractual arrangements for working with an approved contractor.
- Additional variables spreadsheet.xlsx
- Data cleaning guidance.pdf
- Data entry spreadsheet.xls
- Final data checklist V2.docx
- ICD-10 converter.xlsx
- Model Service Contract.docx
- Sample construction worksheet - contractor.xlsx
- Sample construction worksheet - in house.xlsx
- Sample declaration form - contractor.xlsx
- Sample declaration form - in house.xlsx
- Sampling Instructions.pdf
- Survey Handbook.pdf
- Trust webinar Q&A.pdf
- Trust webinar slides.pdf
- Weekly fieldwork monitoring template.xlsx
Analysis and Reporting
In this category, you will find reports and datasets that can help support any analysis you might want to do and help to explain the survey results more widely.
Benchmark Reports
In this category, you will find benchmark reports for the survey. If you experience any problems downloading the report(s) you need, please email Patient.Survey@cqc.org.uk and we can send you a copy directly.
View all Benchmark Reports available for this survey