Hospital activity update - January 2024

Important to note

Date range: October 2022 to September 2023

Published: January 2024 (updated March 2024)

Data: extracted 27 February 2024

Outpatient activity

Outpatient appointments are planned according to how urgently the patient needs to be seen and this is based on information from the doctor who makes the referral to the outpatient clinic.

There are two categories of outpatient appointments and these are:

  • New
  • Return

New includes all the patients who are coming to their first appointment in an outpatient clinic.

Some patients may need to return to the clinic for follow-up care, as part of a course of treatment or to support ongoing chronic care needs and these patients are counted as Return patients

 

Total outpatient activity

 

New

 

Return

 

Day case activity

Day case attendances and treatment is provided across a range of areas. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy (Chemo / radio therapy), dialysis, and GI scopes are separate categories of day case activity. Day cases can include patients who are coming for their first treatment or patients returning for follow on treatment after an initial episode of care.

 

Total day case activity

 

Day case

 

Chemo / radio therapy

 

Dialysis

 

GI scopes

 

Inpatient activity

Inpatient activity includes emergency, planned and maternity care. The majority of inpatient activity is as a result of emergency care.

Maternity includes all obstetric care.

 

Total inpatient activity

 

Emergency

 

Planned

 

Maternity

 

Emergency care

New and return visits to an Emergency Department (ED) in relation to each episode of care are counted as New ED or Return ED.

Emergency care also includes visits to injury units .

Other emergency care includes patients who are seen on an emergency basis outside of an ED or Injury Unit. For example, at a Surgical Assessment Unit.

 

Total emergency care activity

 

New ED

 

Return ED

 

Injury unit

 

Other

 

Important to note: Information is subject to change as more recent information becomes available.