Acute Patient Level Activity and Costing, 2019-20

The distribution of total cost and count of A&E attendances shown in this chart excludes attendances where the diagnosis is either Unknown or Not Classifiable which made up 20% and 6% respectively of the total cost of the attendances linked to HES A&E data.

The most frequent diagnosis group was Respiratory conditions, and attendances with this diagnosis also had the highest proportion of total cost recorded.

Total cost and count of activities can be analysed by ICD-10 chapter of primary diagnosis for the linked HES finished consultant episode.

The variation between total cost of episodes per diagnosis chapter is influenced by both the frequency of episodes in each diagnosis chapter and the diagnosis chapter.

Data has not been analysed by diagnosis due to known incompleteness of diagnosis recording in HES outpatient records.