Publication, Part of Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity
Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2022-23
National statistics, Accredited official statistics
Update to excel output
We have made an update to the Hospital Providers and ICB of Responsibility excel output. If you have downloaded these files prior to 15:00 on 21st September 2023, please re-download the file and ensure you are using the one which has 'v2' at the end of the file name.
21 September 2023 11:52 AM
Format change to ICD-10 Diagnosis and OPCS-4 Procedure codes.
This is a format only change. The 4 digit ICD-10 diagnosis codes and the 4 digit OPCS-4 procedure codes were originally published without the separating "." between the 3rd and 4th character. If you have downloaded the following files prior to 9th Feb 2024 please refresh them from the resource links below:
Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2022-23: Diagnosis
Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2022-23: Procedures and interventions
Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2022-23: Open Data - Diagnosis
Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, 2022-23: Open Data - Procedures
9 February 2024 11:04 AM
Summary Report - Episodes
Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs) and Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs)
20.0 million FCEs and 16.4 million FAEs were recorded in 2022-23.
This represents a 2.0% per cent increase in FCEs from 2022-23. The increase in FAEs is 2.6% per cent.
The chart below shows the trend of FCEs and FAEs including the impact of COVID-19 since 2020-21.
Day case and ordinary episodes, 2013-14 to 2022-23
In 2022-23 63.0 per cent of episodes were ordinary episodes involving a planned overnight stay and 37.0 per cent were day cases.
Admission method by IMD decile, 2022-23
We can see in this chart that emergency admissions were more common in the more deprived decile groups compared with the less deprived groups.
FCEs by age and sex, 2022-23
The age group with the highest number of episodes was the 75-79 year group (1.9 million), which is a change from last year which was 70-74 year olds.
Female patients accounted for 10.9 million, 54.7 per cent, of episodes.
Episodes for females aged 20-39 years were 3 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.
Last edited: 26 February 2024 5:43 pm