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Hospital Outpatient Activity - 2004-05
National statistics- Publication Date:
- 1 May 2007
- Geographic Coverage:
- England
- Geographical Granularity:
- Strategic Health Authorities, Hospital Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Regions, NHS Trusts, Country
- Date Range:
- 01 Apr 2004 to 31 Mar 2005
Summary
For the 2004-05 financial year, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) has collected more than 54 million records detailing outpatient appointments, delivered by NHS hospitals in England or performed in the independent sector and commissioned by the English NHS.
The outpatients' data set contains individual records for all outpatient appointments occurring in England including details such as the type of attendance ie whether it was a first or follow up attendance or the main specialty ie the specialty under which the consultant with prime responsibility for the patient is registered.
Highlights
• There were 13.1 million first outpatient attendances. Of these, 8.0 million resulted from GP referral and 1.0 million from referral from accident & emergency.
• For 77 per cent of first attendances, the patient had been referred for advice/consultation, with only 5 per cent referred for a specific procedure.
• Overall, there was a ratio of 2.4 outpatient follow-up attendances seen to every first attendance.
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Last edited: 27 January 2022 3:25 pm