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

In the year from December 2009 to November 2010 there were:

Inpatients:
17.1 million finished consultant episodes (FCEs), 58.4% (10.0 million) of which included at least one procedure or intervention, and 5.6 million of which were day cases.
14.8 million finished admission episodes (FAEs), of which 5.2 million were emergency admissions.

Outpatients:
86.7 million outpatient appointments made, with 69.2 million (79.8%) 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):
15.9 million A&E attendances recorded in A&E HES. Of these 3.5 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: Outpatient Treatment Specialties:
The treatment specialty with the highest number of outpatient appointments was Trauma & Orthopaedics (8,990,468) representing 10.4% of all outpatient appointments (86,730,048).
The treatment specialty where the patient is most likely to attend the appointment is Diagnostic Imaging, where there were 1,045,219 appointments and 98.7% of these appointments were attended.
For treatment specialties with at least 1,000 appointments:
The treatment specialty where the patient is least likely to attend is Critical Care Medicine, where there were 2,441 appointments and 67.4% of these appointments were attended.
The treatment specialty where the patient is most likely to have an attendance type 'Hospital postponed' is Paediatric Neurology, where there were 91,751 appointments and 13.1% were 'Hospital postponed'.
The treatment specialty where the patient is most likely to have an attendance type 'Patient cancelled' is Cardiothoracic Transplantation, where there were 11,950 appointments and 16.8% were 'Patient Cancelled'.
There is a general seasonal trend across most treatment specialties showing that the percentage of appointments which result in either 'Patient cancelled' or 'Did not attend' are higher during colder periods.