Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, Outpatients and Accident and Emergency Data - April 2010 to February 2011

In the year from March 2010 to February 2011 there were:

Inpatients:
17.3 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 58.4% (10.1 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 5.7 million of which were day cases.
14.9 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 5.3 million were emergency admissions.

Outpatients:
87.7 million outpatient appointments made, with 70.0 million (79.9%) of these attended by the patient.
6.9 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 7.8% of all appointments.

Accident and Emergency (Experimental Data):
16.2 million A&E attendances recorded in A&E HES. Of these 3.5 million (22.0%) resulted in admission to hospital for inpatient treatment, 3.0 million (18.7%) resulted in a GP follow up, and 6.2 million (38.6%) were discharged with no follow up.

Monthly topic of interest: Falls:
falls accounted for 459,344 finished admission episodes (FAE), a 4.2% increase on the previous 12 months. Overall admissions increased 2.8% over the same period
'Unspecified falls' (183,606) accounted for the highest proportion of admissions, followed by, 'fall on same level from slipping tripping and stumbling' (88,630),
As a percentage of all admissions, admissions for falls were highest in the South East Coast Strategic Health Authority.
141,788 Females aged 80 or over were admitted to hospital because of a fall, representing 30.9% of all admissions because of a fall.