Publication, Part of Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity
Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2021-22
National statistics, Accredited official statistics
Consultation: proposed improvements to the Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity
The data included within the 2022-23 release will remain the same or have minor changes to the publication series (Admitted Patient Care), details about the changes can be found within the consultation.
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Consultation for Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity
18 August 2023 17:00 PM
Summary Report - Patient
FCEs by age and sex, 2021-22
The age group with the highest number of episodes was the 70-74 year group (1.8 million). This accounts for 9.2 per cent of all episodes.
Female patients accounted for 10.7 million (54.7 per cent) of episodes.
Episodes for females aged 20-39 years were over 2.5 times those of males in the same age groups. Maternity service are responsible for a large proportion of admitted patient care activity for females in these age groups.
Admission by ethnicity and rate per 100,000 population, 2021-22
The highest rate of admissions was for the ‘Any other ethnic’ category with 53,653 admissions for every 100,000 people. This group accounted for 2.4 per cent of all admissions with a recorded ethnicity.
The largest volume of admissions were for White British patients (11.8 million).
Mixed ethnic groups had the lowest rate of admissions with 14,357 admissions per 100,000 people.
Last edited: 26 October 2023 11:46 am