Hospital activity update - July 2025
Important to note
Date range: April 2024 to March 2025
Published: 2 July 2025
Data: extracted 30 June 2025
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
April 2024 to March 2025
January to December 2023
Total outpatient activity
4,001,898
3,657,490
New
1,120,033
1,036,071
Return
2,881,865
2,621,419
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.
April 2024 to March 2025
January to December 2023
Total day case activity
1,244,146
1,195,149
Day case
695,282
657,628
Chemo / radio therapy
248,846
236,603
Dialysis
194,827
190,783
GI scopes
105,191
110,135
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.
April 2024 to March 2025
January to December 2023
Total inpatient activity
687,032
648,557
Emergency
495,876
463,173
Planned
89,019
85,914
Maternity
102,137
99,470
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.
April 2024 to March 2025
January to December 2023
Total emergency care activity
1,854,997
1,691,147
New ED
1,456,221
1,342,458
Return ED
126,551
114,482
Injury unit
217,976
184,542
Other
54,249
49,665
Important to note: Information is subject to change as more recent information becomes available.