Hospital activity update - March 2025
Important to note
Date range: December 2023 to November 2024
Published: 4 March 2025
Data: extracted 20 February 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
December 2023 to November 2024
January to December 2022
Total outpatient activity
3,946,985
3,441,381
New
1,112,620
953,542
Return
2,834,365
2,487,839
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.
December 2023 to November 2024
January to December 2022
Total day case activity
1,243,072
1,112,099
Day case
690,595
587,722
Chemo / radio therapy
249,351
230,086
Dialysis
195,046
189,588
GI scopes
108,080
104,703
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.
December 2023 to November 2024
January to December 2022
Total inpatient activity
683,010
610,013
Emergency
492,535
434,870
Planned
89,527
76,518
Maternity
100,948
98,625
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.
December 2023 to November 2024
January to December 2022
Total emergency care activity
1,824,594
1,657,355
New ED
1,453,795
1,352,102
Return ED
128,434
108,480
Injury unit
189,195
147,419
Other
53,170
49,354
Important to note: Information is subject to change as more recent information becomes available.