Hospital activity update - May 2025
Important to note
Date range: February 2024 to January 2025
Published: 6 May 2025
Data: extracted 29 April 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
February 2024 to January 2025
January to December 2023
Total outpatient activity
3,980,674
3,657,490
New
1,118,856
1,036,071
Return
2,861,818
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.
February 2024 to January 2025
January to December 2023
Total day case activity
1,242,042
1,195,149
Day case
691,281
657,628
Chemo / radio therapy
251,537
236,603
Dialysis
192,197
190,783
GI scopes
107,027
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.
February 2024 to January 2025
January to December 2023
Total inpatient activity
687,785
648,557
Emergency
497,420
463,173
Planned
88,807
85,914
Maternity
101,558
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.
February 2024 to January 2025
January to December 2023
Total emergency care activity
1,845,197
1,691,147
New ED
1,451,500
1,342,458
Return ED
126,878
114,482
Injury unit
213,030
184,542
Other
53,789
49,665
Important to note: Information is subject to change as more recent information becomes available.