Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity 2020-21

There were 235,262 useable critical care records in 2020-21, a decrease of 17.8 per cent from 2019-20 (286,224 records).

This chart shows a breakdown of critical care records by the Commissioning Region of treatment.

Almost a quarter (25 per cent) of all critical care records were for the London region.

The South West region again recorded the least critical care records (16,747), followed by the East of England region (21,308 records).

In 2020-21 patients aged 70-74 years represented the age group with the largest number of critical care records (28,952 records).

Children and young people (patients aged between 0-19 years) accounted for 2,871 (1.3 per cent) of critical records.

Male patients accounted for over half (59.0 per cent) of critical care records.

The longest average length of stay was for Gastrointestinal support with 9.9 days (53,851 critical care periods).

Although the total number of critical care periods fell from 2019-20, the average length of stay increased in all categories, but most noticeably in Advanced Respiratory Care where the average stay increased from 4.9 days in 2019-20 to 7.2 days in 2020-21.