Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity 2020-21

There were 1.7 million admissions with a primary diagnosis of neoplasms.

In 2019-20 the most common primary diagnosis was for ‘Diseases of the digestive system’ with neoplasms being the second most common. However in 2020-21,  these rankings were reversed.

Nationally, the most commonly recorded main procedures, were ‘miscellaneous operations’ (1.8 million episodes), comprising of operations on multiple systems, drug therapy, and operations that could not be categorised elsewhere.