Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2021-22

The age group with the highest number of episodes was the 70-74 year group (1.8 million). This accounts for 9.2 per cent of all episodes.

Female patients accounted for 10.7 million (54.7 per cent) of episodes.

Episodes for females aged 20-39 years were over 2.5 times those of males in the same age groups. Maternity service are responsible for a large proportion of admitted patient care activity for females in these age groups.

The highest rate of admissions was for the ‘Any other ethnic’ category with 53,653 admissions for every 100,000 people. This group accounted for 2.4 per cent of all admissions with a recorded ethnicity.

The largest volume of admissions were for White British patients (11.8 million).

Mixed ethnic groups had the lowest rate of admissions with 14,357 admissions per 100,000 people.