National Institute of Public Health

Trubarjeva 2

SI-1000 Ljubljana

Slovenia

Health Data Centre

Zdravstveno podatkovni center

Trubarjeva 2

SI-1000 Ljubljana

Slovenia

Statistics on healthcare non-expenditure provide information on healthcare human resources, healthcare facilities, and healthcare utilisation.

- The people active in the healthcare sector (doctors, dentists, nurses, etc.) and their status (graduates, practising, migration of doctors and nurses, etc.);

- The available healthcare technical resources and facilities (hospital beds, beds in residential care facilities, medical technology, etc.);

- The health activities or patient contacts undertaken (hospital discharges, surgical procedures, ambulatory care data, etc.).

Annual national and regional data are provided in absolute numbers or as a rate of a relevant population.

Data are based mainly on administrative records (see section 18.1 ‘Source data’ for more information).

For the collection data on healthcare non- expenditure, the classifications used in the System of Health Accounts (SHA) and its related set of International Classification for the Health Accounts (https://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/1841456.pdf ) are applied.

For hospital discharges, the International Shortlist for Hospital Morbidity Tabulation (ISHMT) is used.

For Health Employment, the Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications apply (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2005/36/2020-04-24 ).

Definitions of mandatory variables are laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294.

Where possible, the statistics are separated by sex (male/female), age group and NUTS2 region.

The Eurostat manual on healthcare non-expenditure statistics provides an overview of the classifications, both for mandatory variables and variables provided on voluntary basis.

National deviations: see Annex at the bottom of the page.

Public health.

The healthcare non-expenditure statistics describe the public health sector from a non-monetary perspective. The statistics explain the number or rate of different healthcare resources, facilities and utilisations. A wide range of indicators are collected from a multitude of sources and therefore, details pertaining to individual variables are given in the Annex.

Definitions of mandatory variables are laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294.

The Eurostat manual on healthcare non-expenditure statistics provides an overview of the classifications, both for mandatory variables and variables provided on voluntary basis.

National changes of statistical concepts and national definitions deviating from Regulation (EU) 2022/2294: see Annex at the bottom of the page.

Registered health professionals or health care facility categories.

(1) all health care staff

(2) all available beds or equipment in hospitals or in nursing and residential care facilities

(3) all discharges or procedures performed in all hospitals

Slovenia

Statistics on healthcare non-expenditure provide information on healthcare human resources, healthcare facilities, and healthcare utilisation for Slovenia:

• Healthcare staff; most of the data (with some exceptions) are available yearly, overall from the year 2005 onwards.
• Healthcare technical resources and facilities; most of the data (with some exceptions) are available yearly, overall from the year 2010 onwards.
• Health activities; most of the data (with some exceptions) are available yearly, overall from the year 2011 onwards.

Not applicable

Annual national and regional data are provided in absolute numbers, days or as a rate of a relevant population.

Calendar year.

Regulation on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work (EC) No 1338/2008 

Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294 on statistics on healthcare facilities, healthcare human resources and healthcare utilisation 

Gentlemen’s agreement

Joint Questionnaire on Non-Monetary Health Care Statistics, which is carried by Eurostat, OECD and WHO-Europe.

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20 (4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p.164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data. All data collected and published by the National Institute of Public Health are governed by the Healthcare Databases Act (OJ RS No. 65/00 and updates) and additionally also by the National Statistics Act (OJ RS No. 45/95 and (No. 9/01). The National Statistics Act states that Statistics may be published in aggregate form only and are equally accessible to users, defined in paragraph 2 of Article 1 hereof. By way of exception, data may also be published individually:

• upon written consent of the reporting unit as regards publication of the data in such a way;
• if data have been collected from public (generally accessible) data collections (records, registers, databases, etc.);
• if data are published in such a way that the reporting unit involved cannot be identified.

All categories showing an absolute number less than 5 cases are considered as confidential.

Final national data is released at the end of September, every year, for the previous year (t + 9 months). Release calendars are available on websites of participating organisations.

Data release calendar of National Institute of Public Health (Slovenia) is published on NIJZ webpage: https://nijz.si/podatki/koledar-objav-za-leto-2023/

Release calendar of all producers included in the System of national statistics are published on SURS (Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia) webpage: https://www.stat.si/statweb/en/ReleaseCal

All other institutes, participating in international questionnaires: not applicable

Majority of health data and healthcare data of the Slovenian population are publicly available on the NIJZ data portal https://podatki.nijz.si. Some of data are also available on Statistical Offices SiStat data portal: https://pxweb.stat.si/SiStat/en. 

New data releases and all the changes are published in release calendars.

All the data are publicly available after the official first release, as announced in the release calendars. Same release policy valid in national release is applied to transmissions to Eurostat and other national and international organizations. 

Annual.

News releases on-line.

Regular and ad-hoc online publications.

Data are available on-line for majority of health data: 

• https://podatki.nijz.si/pxweb/sl/NIJZ podatkovni portal (in Slovene only),
• https://pxweb.stat.si/SiStat/en

Microdata is available only for research purposes.

https://podatki.nijz.si

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat

https://stats.oecd.org/

https://gateway.euro.who.int/en/

Documents for healthcare workforce, resources activities are available at Eurostat webpage.

National Institute of Public Health data: Short quality reports are available for internal users.

Other organisations: not applicable

Data on non-monetary health care statistics are based on a regulation, which defines scope, definitions of variables and characteristics of the data.

Data are mostly derived from administrative databases, survey data are used exceptionally.

Deviations from the given definitions from the manual and other notes are documented in the Sources and Methods (Annex file).

All data are collected in compliance with methodological requirements and standards.

Users of HCNM data include both national and international organisations such as the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Eurostat, WHO, OECD, Euromomo and EMCDDA and many more.

Locally users include policy makers both within the Ministry of Health and other Ministries as well as other entities, researchers and students.  

User satisfaction is measured with different user satisfaction surveys, performed on regular basis. User satisfaction surveys plan is prepared for each calendar year and results of surveys are published on NIJZ restricted area for employees. One of the user satisfaction surveys is also about satisfaction with NIJZ webpage, including NIJZ data portal.

All statistics required by the current EU legislation are available.

The definitions are consistent with EU regulation.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

For majority of final data submitted to international organisations for the year N at N+14 months.

Nearly all data collections are able to meet the legal deadlines for transmission of data and metadata.

Statistics are largely comparable between geographical areas.

Some issues which may effect comparability over time include changes in the coders at a local, national and international level.

In case of non-monetary health care statistics data a part of data are collected from other data sources (than NIJZ). Considering that these are totally different organisations, with different methodologies, sources and even sometimes definitions, overall coherence is acceptable. 

Total.

Not available.

All data are revised yearly and transmitted with new, updated data.

Information regarding revisions made are stated for each variable in the Annex.

Source data for the different variables are given in the Annex at the bottom of the page.

Annual.

Health care non-expenditure data collection.

Not applicable.

Not available.

No special adjustment needed.

Not applicable.