Consultant led outpatients summary data by specialty group

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Year

Value

Measure

Specialty

Specialty 1

Specialty 2

Specialty 3

New attendances A patient whose first attendance of a continuous series (or whose single attendance if only one is needed), at an out-patient clinic department for the same ailment falls within the period under review.

A patient whose first attendance of a continuous series (or whose single attendance if only one is needed), at an out-patient clinic department for the same ailment falls within the period under review.

Total attendances Total number of attendances by out-patients during the period under review, whether or not the first attendance in a series occurred during the period. Data for individual specialties may not add up to the all specialties total for 2011-12.

Total number of attendances by out-patients during the period under review, whether or not the first attendance in a series occurred during the period. Data for individual specialties may not add up to the all specialties total for 2011-12.

Ratio of repeat attendances to new out-patients $The mean number of repeat attendances by each new out-patient during the period under review. Calculated by subtracting \'new attendances\' from total attendances\' and dividing by \'new attendances\'.$

New out-patients who did not attend Number of patients with an appointment for a first attendance of a continuous series at a clinical out-patient department for the same ailment, who did not attend the appointment and failed to give warning to the hospital in advance.

Number of patients with an appointment for a first attendance of a continuous series at a clinical out-patient department for the same ailment, who did not attend the appointment and failed to give warning to the hospital in advance.

Percentage of new appointments not kept $Calculated by multiplying \'new out-patients who did not attend\' by 100 and dividing by \'new out-patients\' plus \'new out-patients who did not attend\'.$

All out-patients who did not attend Total number of patients with an appointment for an attendance at a clinical out-patient department, who did not attend the appointment and failed to give warning to the hospital in advance.

Total number of patients with an appointment for an attendance at a clinical out-patient department, who did not attend the appointment and failed to give warning to the hospital in advance.

Percentage of all appointments not kept $Calculated by multiplying \'all out-patients who did not attend\' by 100 and dividing by \'total out-patients\' plus \'total out-patients who did not attend\'.$

All specialties Excludes Special Care Baby Unit and A&E attendances. Data for these are included under the appropriate specialty

937,620

3,100,273

2.3

79,144

7.8

290,740

8.6

All specialties Excludes Special Care Baby Unit and A&E attendances. Data for these are included under the appropriate specialty

Total acute

854,658

2,690,224

2.1

71,205

7.7

250,452

8.5

Total acute

Surgical acute total

478,500

1,477,734

2.1

39,276

7.6

130,055

8.1

Medical acute total

297,901

976,152

2.3

25,218

7.8

100,390

9.3

Other acute total

78,257

236,338

2.0

6,711

7.9

20,007

7.8

Geriatric medicine

8,880

32,656

2.7

617

6.5

3,308

9.2

Maternity total

45,456

135,807

2.0

3,020

6.2

11,791

8.0

Mental illness total

25,675

143,490

4.6

4,072

13.7

24,143

14.4

Learning disabilities

448

4,594

9.3

9.5

362

7.3

Pathology total

2,492

92,341

36.1

178

6.7

575

0.6

Community medicine

0.9

31.3

34.4

Nursing

1,145

0.0

7.9

A&E out-patients $Not included in the \'all specialties\' total. There exists another data source for A&E attendance data in Wales (Emergency Department Data Set - EDDS), which is likely to contain different attendance figures to those presented here.$

993,522

1,059,341

0.1

0.0

Special care baby units $Not included in the \'all specialties\' total.$

2.2

13.3

9.9

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Title

Hlth0304 Outpatient attendances: summary data

Author

Health Statistics and Analysis Unit, Welsh Government

Notes

Added to StatsWales: 31 October 2012

Next Update: To be confirmed

Source: QS1
Contact: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

This table provides historic data on numbers of NHS outpatient attendances by specialty and specialty group at an all Wales level.

Following data quality assessments and reviews of the data, the Welsh Government will be changing to using the Outpatient Activity Data Set (OPA DS) as the source of the official statistics for outpatient activity in the NHS in Wales for 2012-13 data onwards rather than the QS1 return. The reasons for this are to:
- Have just one definitive source of data for outpatient activity data;
- Remove the burden on data providers of supplying data for two similar data sets;
- Remove the confusion for analysts and users which exists by having two similar data sets, containing different data in some cases; and
- Allow more granularity for research and data mining (the OPA DS provides patient level data, whereas the QS1 data collection provides high level, summary data).
If you have any comments on this approach, then please let us know via the contact details above. Further details will follow.

Keywords

Outpatients

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Name

Hlth0304 Out patient attendances summary data