Hospital In-Patient Enquiry (HIPE)

HIPE is the principal source of national data on discharges from acute hospitals in Ireland.

Purpose: To maintain a timely accurate national database of hospital discharge activity that meets the needs of the data users (including policymakers, clinical teams and researchers), through the development and support of the data collection and reporting software, training of coders, data quality, audit, reporting, and responding to requests for data.

All acute public hospitals participate in HIPE. Private hospitals are not included.

Coverage: National- all acute public hospitals participate in HIPE.

HIPE data collection commenced in 1971 and is ongoing.

Data and Resources

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Additional Info

Field Value
Contact points
Contact point 1
URI
Name
Healthcare Pricing Office
Email
data@healthcare-pricing-o.ie
Identifier
Publisher
Publisher 1
URI
Name
Healthcare Pricing Office
Email
URL
Type
http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority
Identifier
Creator
Homepage
Landing page
Release date January 1, 1969
Modification date September 7, 2025
Version
Version notes
Identifier NDC-0045
Frequency http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/QUARTERLY
Provenance

Information is abstracted from medical charts or records and coded by trained clinical coders in line with national and international coding guidelines before entering into HIPE system (HIPE Portal). HIPE data is exported from acute hospitals to the HPO on a monthly basis with an expectation of a time lag of 30 days post patient discharge.
Type
Temporal coverage
Temporal coverage 1
Start
January 1, 1969
End
October 21, 2026
Temporal resolution
Spatial coverage
Spatial coverage 1
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL
Label
Ireland
Geometry
Bounding Box
Centroid
Spatial resolution in meters
Access rights http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/NON_PUBLIC
Other identifier
Theme
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
Documentation
Conforms to
Is referenced by
Analytics
Applicable legislation
Has version
Code values
Coding system
Purpose
Health category
  1. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/registries
Health theme
  1. http://health.europa.eu/theme/mental-health
  2. http://health.europa.eu/theme/infectious-disease
  3. http://health.europa.eu/theme/chronic-disease
Legal basis
Minimum typical age 0
Maximum typical age 85
Number of records 719437
Number of records for unique individuals. 73182
Personal data
Publisher note
Publisher type
Trusted Data Holder
Population coverage
Retention period
Health data access body
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Provenance Activity
URI
Qualified Attribution
Quality annotations