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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hospitals: Waiting Lists (14 December 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) outpatient appointments and (b) elective operations took place in England in each week of 2014-15.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

Answer

The information is shown in the following table.


Number of outpatient appointments and finished admission episodes (FAEs) with an elective main procedure by week in 2014-15 in England.


Week Number

Date

Outpatient appointments

FAEs with an elective procedure

1

06 April 2014

2,074,064

152,037

2

13 April 2014

1,715,345

125,191

3

20 April 2014

1,722,450

125,185

4

27 April 2014

2,181,289

156,085

5

04 May 2014

1,782,607

129,711

6

11 May 2014

2,201,615

155,936

7

18 May 2014

2,154,486

153,252

8

25 May 2014

1,615,198

123,484

9

01 June 2014

2,175,157

153,496

10

08 June 2014

2,134,887

153,826

11

15 June 2014

2,128,058

151,508

12

22 June 2014

2,090,872

153,915

13

29 June 2014

2,091,790

152,098

14

06 July 2014

2,108,843

150,721

15

13 July 2014

2,079,438

150,166

16

20 July 2014

2,052,164

151,164

17

27 July 2014

1,963,411

145,641

18

03 August 2014

1,985,519

145,254

19

10 August 2014

2,017,505

145,912

20

17 August 2014

1,981,831

145,873

21

24 August 2014

1,599,651

122,184

22

31 August 2014

2,121,461

149,563

23

07 September 2014

2,118,810

150,024

24

14 September 2014

2,107,008

150,727

25

21 September 2014

2,142,081

153,790

26

28 September 2014

2,147,352

152,751

27

05 October 2014

2,174,051

153,818

28

12 October 2014

2,183,576

154,977

29

19 October 2014

2,126,467

154,331

30

26 October 2014

1,968,069

147,658

31

02 November 2014

2,215,685

157,287

32

09 November 2014

2,211,873

158,772

33

16 November 2014

2,190,637

160,205

34

23 November 2014

2,185,994

159,304

35

30 November 2014

2,210,964

159,359

36

07 December 2014

2,210,624

157,525

37

14 December 2014

2,223,306

156,081

38

21 December 2014

1,038,841

76,842

39

28 December 2014

1,175,849

87,790

40

04 January 2015

2,254,400

147,233

41

11 January 2015

2,245,845

155,277

42

18 January 2015

2,208,941

156,642

43

25 January 2015

2,154,520

156,841

44

01 February 2015

2,192,970

158,333

45

08 February 2015

2,198,622

160,376

46

15 February 2015

1,980,011

151,461

47

22 February 2015

2,199,551

161,546

48

01 March 2015

2,196,041

161,144

49

08 March 2015

2,172,174

160,707

50

15 March 2015

2,141,290

158,423

51

22 March 2015

2,106,928

160,091

52

29 March 2015

2,528,302

185,415

England Total

107,188,423

7,756,932

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre

Notes:

  1. Includes activity in English NHS hospital trusts and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
  2. Outpatient appointments are the number of booked appointments for outpatients, whether they were attended or not.
  3. Finished admission episodes (FAEs) are the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.
  4. A main procedure is the first recorded procedure or intervention in each episode, usually the most resource intensive procedure or intervention performed during the episode. It is appropriate to use main procedure when looking at admission details, but a more complete count of episodes with a particular procedure is obtained by looking at the main and the secondary procedures.


Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
5 January 2016

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