Hospital activity update - November 2024
Important to note
Date range: August 2023 to July 2024
Published: 8 November 2024
Data: extracted 4 October 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
August 2023 to July 2024
3,791,322
January to December 2022
3,441,381
New
August 2023 to July 2024
1,085,181
January to December 2022
953,542
Return
August 2023 to July 2024
2,706,141
January to December 2022
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.
Total day case activity
August 2023 to July 2024
1,233,341
January to December 2022
1,112,099
Day case
August 2023 to July 2024
690,684
January to December 2022
587,722
Chemo / radio therapy
August 2023 to July 2024
242,469
January to December 2022
230,086
Dialysis
August 2023 to July 2024
193,133
January to December 2022
189,588
GI scopes
August 2023 to July 2024
107,055
January to December 2022
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.
Total inpatient activity
August 2023 to July 2024
672,982
January to December 2022
610,013
Emergency
August 2023 to July 2024
484,663
January to December 2022
434,870
Planned
August 2023 to July 2024
88,942
January to December 2022
76,518
Maternity
August 2023 to July 2024
99,377
January to December 2022
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.
Total emergency care activity
August 2023 to July 2024
1,794,449
January to December 2022
1,657,355
New ED
August 2023 to July 2024
1,432,929
January to December 2022
1,352,102
Return ED
August 2023 to July 2024
127,498
January to December 2022
108,480
Injury unit
August 2023 to July 2024
181,587
January to December 2022
147,419
Other
August 2023 to July 2024
52,435
January to December 2022
49,354
Important to note: Information is subject to change as more recent information becomes available.