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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 2009-10 in either Portable Document Format (PDF) or Microsoft Excel format (XLS). Please note that starting from 2009-10, data is only available in XLS format.
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.
SHA and provider level analysis
Detailed analysis of outpatients appointments at strategic health authority (SHA) and provider level.
Attendances
Attendances at outpatient appointments; available as first appointments only, or all appointments (including first, subsequent and unknown).
Specialty
The specialty under which the consultant with prime responsibility for the patient was either contracted (main specialty) or working (treatment specialty).
Primary diagnosis
Primary (the main condition treated or investigated during the episode of care) diagnosis data, recorded using ICD-10.
Main procedures and interventions
Main (normally the most resource intensive performed during the episode of care) procedure or intervention data, recorded using OPCS-4.
Hospital providers
A breakdown of outpatient appointments by attendance type according to the organisation that provided the outpatient appointment, normally an NHS trust.
Responsible statistician
The responsible statistician for this publication is Chris Dew, HES/SUS Analysis (Service) Section Head ([email protected], 0845 300 6016).
Copyright statement
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