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HES = Hospital Episode Statistics, ONS = Office for National Statistics. Vertical lines indicate time points when the collection of identifiers used to generate HESID has changed: 1) Q4 2002: implementation of NHS Numbers for Babies service 2) Q3 2009: Introduction of registration online system 3) Q2 2013: correcting postcode extraction error by NHS Digital.
