Federal Statistical Office (FSO)

Section Health Services (GESV)

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CH-2010 Neuchâtel

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. (https://circabc.europa.eu/ui/group/c1b49c83-24a7-4ff2-951c-621ac0a89fd8/library/6ff71dd5-8200-4fe4-a610-a7707cd47c4d )

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

Complete national territory

years 1960-2021

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Absolute numbers at end of reference period/average

Average number during reference period.

Rate of phenomenon per reference population (e.g. per 100 000 inhabitants)

See Annex for variable specific units.

Calendar year. 

See Annex for variable reference period.

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 out by Eurostat, OECD and WHO-Europe.

Federal Statistics Act of 9 October 1992 (FStatA) and related Ordinances.

Federal Act on Data Protection of 19 June 1992 (FADP) and related Ordinances.

Policy of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office on data protection (2017)

Extract from the FStatA (Art. 18, al. 3): Unless such publication is required by law, the results may not enable any conclusions to be drawn regarding the circumstances of individual natural persons or legal entities that the person or entity concerned has not already made generally available.

A release calendar is available. In principle, releases are announced on the FSO's website at least one month before the publication date.

Agenda | Federal Statistical Office (admin.ch)

Data release policy based on the European Statistics Code of Practice. Privileged access is restricted, embargoed and made public.

Yearly

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Medical statistics of hospitals; Hospital statistics;Hospital activity bounced back in 2021 - Hospital Statistics 2021 | Communiqué de presse | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Statistics of medical-social institutions; Community nursing statistics;In 2021, no increase in nursing home personnel for first time since 2006 - Nursing home and home care services in 2021 | Communiqué de presse | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel;Swiss health survey;One in every two people in Switzerland take medication weekly - Swiss Health Survey 2017: standard tables | Communiqué de presse | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Medical statistics of hospitals; Hospital statistics;Traitements pour troubles psychiques chez les jeunes en 2020 et 2021 | Publication | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Statistics of medical-social institutions; Community nursing statistics;Évolution de la prise en charge médico-sociale des personnes âgées, 2010-2019 | Publication | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel;Swiss health survey;Consommation d'alcool en 2017 | Publication | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Medical statistics of hospitals;Patients dans les hôpitaux selon Unité d'observation, Type d'établissement, Grande région (<<) / Canton (-), Classe d'âge, Sexe et Année. PxWeb (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Hospital statistics; Nombre d'employés des hôpitaux selon Nombre de personnes, Fonction, Type d'établissement, Grande région (<<) / Canton (-), Sexe, Nationalité (sélection) et Année. PxWeb (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Statistics of medical-social institutions; Nombre de clients dans les institutions médico-sociales selon Grande région (<<) / Canton (-), Type d'hébergement, Provenance, Destination, Sexe, Classe d'âge, Nombre de clients et Année. PxWeb (admin.ch)

Microdata accessible on the basis of a data protection agreement.

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Quality guidelines follow European Statistics Code of Practice as well as a Charter of Swiss Official Statistics. These principles, laid down at both national and international level, can also be found in the Federal Statistics Act of 1992. To ensure that these principles are applied, the FSO’s products and processes are subject to different control mechanisms in addition to the regular assessment and continues improvement of its work. The FSO’s quality management system, for example, incorporates management by processes and risk analysis, enabling it to have an overview of its strengths but also to detect areas in need of improvement.

Conclusion of the latest Peer Review's Compliance report (2014-2015): "The Peer Reviewers found that the Swiss Federal Statistical Office is largely compliant with the European statistics Code of Practice (CoP), but there is still scope to achieve and enhance compliance. As regards the Other National Authorities producing European statistics, there is more room for improvement in compliance with the CoP."

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For the following sources employed for this report, the data collections are exhaustive (full population covered/administrative data), with a response rate 100% (or close):

- Federal Statistical Office: Medical Statistics of Hospitals, Hospital Statistics, Statistics of Ambulatory Patients in Hospitals, Statistics of medical-social institutions, Community Nursing Statistics, 

For the Federal Statisical Office's Swiss Health Survey, the data is based on random samples. In most cases, information about sampling errors / consequential dispersion measures are publicly available in the disseminated results.

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In general, data is made public with a lag of T+1: Data related to year T will be available end of year T+1.

Delivery date and target date coincide. There are no exceptions to report.

There are no particular issues in terms of comparability over geographical units to be reported here.

There are no particular issues in terms of comparability over time to be reported here.

There are no particular issues in terms of comparability over domains to be reported here.

There are no particular issues in terms of internal coherence to be reported here.

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Main principles related to data revision:

1. The accuracy of statistical results is of great importance. Significantly erroneous results must be corrected.
2. Statistics must be designed in such a way that it is possible to rectify the results (revisions, replacement by a more up-to-date version, correction of errors) within a given framework.
3. Rules that specify in concrete terms when and how corrections are to be made should be defined for each individual statistic.
4. Any corrections must be communicated appropriately and documented in a way that is transparent and reproducible to the user.

There are no revisions to report.

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

Annual.

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Hospital statistics; Statistique des hôpitaux - Annexe I Questionnaire | Publication | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

 Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Medical statistics of hospitals; Statistique médicale des hôpitaux - Variables de la statistique médicale. Spécifications valables dès 1.1.2020 | Publication | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Statistics of medical-social institutions;Statistique des institutions médico-sociales - Conception détaillée | Publication | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Community nursing statistics;Application Spitex: Catalogue des variables | Publication | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel;Swiss health survey;Enquête suisse sur la santé 2017 - Questionnaires téléphonique et écrit (pdf) | Publication | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel; Medical statistics of hospitals; Hospital statistics; Neuchâtel; Statistics of medical-social institutions; Community nursing statistics; Administrative survey, data validation by cantonal authorities

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Neuchâtel;Swiss health survey; L'enquête suisse sur la santé 2017 en bref - Conception, méthode, réalisation | Publication | Office fédéral de la statistique (admin.ch)

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