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

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

Inpatients:
17.2 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 58.4% (10.0 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 5.7 million of which were day cases.
14.8 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 5.3 million were emergency admissions.

Outpatients:
87.4 million outpatient appointments made, with 69.7 million (79.8%) of these attended by the patient.
6.9 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 7.9% of all appointments.

Accident and Emergency (Experimental Data):
16.1 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 - Influenza:
In the year from February 2010 to January 2011 there were 47,385 completed Finished Consultant Episodes (FCE) bed days where the primary diagnosis was either J10 or J11
In the previous year from February 2009 to January 2010 there were 35,622 completed FCE bed days where the primary diagnosis was either J10 or J11
This represents an increase of 11,763 (33%) FCE bed days for the 12 month period February 2010 to January 2011 compared to the previous year (February 2009 to January 2010), primarily driven by large increases in December 2010 and January 2011.