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

In the year from September 2009 to August 2010 there were:

Inpatients:
17.1 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 58.2% (9.9 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and of these 5.6 million were day cases.
14.7 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 5.2 million were emergency admissions.

Outpatients:
85.9 million outpatient appointments made, with 68.6 million (79.9%) of these attended by the patient.
6.8 million outpatient appointments not attended by the patient, representing 7.9% of all appointments.

Accident and Emergency (Experimental Data):
15.7 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 6.1 million (39%) were discharged with no follow up.

Topic of interest - complications:
In the year from September 2009 to August 2010 there were 17,051,769 FCEs (Finished Consultant Episodes) of which 372,786 resulted from a complication (21.9 per 1,000 FCEs).
In the previous year from September 2008 to August 2009 there were 16,444,127 FCEs (Finished Consultant Episodes) of which 335,653 resulted from a complication (20.4 per 1,000 FCEs).
The 60-79 age group experienced the most complications in the year September 2009 to August 2010. 149,150 or 40% of all complications.