Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, Outpatient and Accident and Emergency Data - April 2009 to March 2010

In the year from April 2009 to March 2010 there were:

Inpatients:
16.8 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 58% of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and of these 5.5 million were day cases.
14.5 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 5.2 million were emergency admissions.

Outpatients:
83.9 million outpatient appointments made, with 67.2 million (80.1%) of these attended by the patient.
6.7 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 8.0% of all appointments.

Accident and Emergency (experimental statistics):
15.5 million A&E attendances recorded in A&E HES. Of these 3.4 million (22%) resulted in admission to hospital for inpatient treatment, 2.9 million (19%) resulted in a GP follow up, and 6.0 million (39%) were discharged with no follow up.

Topic of interest: Assaults:
In the current year from April 2009 to March 2010 there were 42,370 finished admission episodes for assault (all age groups), of these 26,332 (62.1%) were from Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP phase II) local authorities and 16,038 from non-TKAP areas.
In the previous year from April 2008 to March 2009 there were 42,520 finished admission episodes for assault (all age groups), of these 26,539 (62.4%) were from Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP phase II) local authorities and 15,981 from non-TKAP areas.
Between these periods admission episodes for assault decreased by 0.4% in England with a decrease of 0.8% in TKAP phase II areas and an increase of 0.4% in Non-TKAP areas.
There were 10,537 finished admission episodes recorded in the year April 2009 to March 2010 for people aged between 13-24 within TKAP phase II areas, representing a decrease of 208 (1.9%) from the previous year (April 2008 to March 2009).
There were 6,317 finished admission episodes recorded in the year April 2009 to March 2010 for people aged between 13-24 within non-TKAP areas, representing an increase of 46 (0.7%) from the previous year (April 2008 to March 2009).

Topic of interest: A+E Sports Injuries:
There were 313,226 A&E attendances record in HES for sports related injuries. This compares to 274,056 attendances in the same period for the previous year, an increase / coverage improvement of 14%.
Sports injuries accounted for 2% (313,226) of all A&E attendances recorded (15,467,243).
80% (249,394) of A&E attendances for sports injuries were for males, whilst 19% (60,904) were female.
Around 51% of A&E attendances for sports injuries result in the patient being discharged with no further follow up. Only 3% resulted in the patient being admitted as an inpatient.