Outpatient data

Monthly data

This data is provisional and subject to changes and revisions each month. It should be treated as an estimate until the final National Statistics annual publications.

Provisional monthly data is only available for a given year until the final annual figures have been published for that year. (A monthly breakdown of the final annual figures will still be available.)

Annual data

Download HES annual outpatient data from 2003-04 to 2008-09 in either Portable Document Format (PDF) or Microsoft Excel format (XLS).

Each PDF file contains a short introduction and then the relevant table in landscape format.

The XLS files are not formatted for printing and do not contain an introduction - the introductions are provided in separate 'explanatory notes' files.

Attendances at outpatient appointments; available as first appointments only, or all appointments (including first, subsequent and unknown).

The specialty under which the consultant with prime responsibility for the patient was either contracted (main specialty) or working (treatment specialty).

Primary (the main condition treated or investigated during the episode of care) diagnosis data, recorded using ICD-10.

Main (normally the most resource intensive performed during the episode of care) procedure or intervention data, recorded using OPCS-4.

A breakdown of outpatient appointments by attendance type according to the organisation that provided the outpatient appointment, normally an NHS trust.