Adult Inpatient Survey 2023
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 Survey Coordination Centre 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.
View all Survey Materials available for this surveyInstructions 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.
- Data Cleaning Guidance.docx
- Data entry checklist.xlsx
- Data entry spreadsheet.xlsx
- Easy Read Data Entry Spreadsheet.xlsx
- Sample construction worksheet_ For in-house trusts v2.xlsx
- Sample construction worksheet_ Using approved contractor.xlsx
- Sample declaration form contractors V2.xlsx
- Sample declaration form inhouse trusts V2.xlsx
- Sampling Instructions.docx
- Survey handbook.docx
- 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