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Hospital Episode Statistics

There are over 105 million hospital admissions and 0.5 billion outpatient attendances linked to version 43 QResearch since 1997 until May 2019. The table below shows the number of episodes in each financial year where data are available.These figures are for illustration purposes since the database is regularly updated.

year                   number of admissions  number of outpatients
1997                                            1,534,706  n/a 
1998                                            2,475,014  n/a 
1999                                            2,873,445  n/a 
2000                                            3,063,246  n/a 
2001                                            3,194,166  n/a 
2002                                            3,514,699  n/a 
2003                                            3,871,729                    15,973,251
2004                                            4,126,150                    17,524,103
2005                                            4,424,975                    19,973,823
2006                                            4,674,122                    21,234,037
2007                                            4,935,193                    22,811,563
2008                                            5,246,825                    26,118,809
2009                                            5,505,271                    29,780,111
2010                                            5,731,881                    31,411,518
2011                                            5,804,637                    32,729,563
2012                                            5,865,348                    33,799,667
2013                                            6,203,188                    37,763,484
2014                                            6,358,817                    39,496,591
2015                                            6,479,221                    42,013,803
2016                                            6,615,962                    43,773,208
2017                                            6,620,310                    44,028,898
2018                                            6,573,745                    44,902,580

There were approximately 90 million million hospital admissions (excluding maternity related). The table below shows the type of admission  1997-2018

Type of admission (excluding maternity) number of admissions
Elective: from waiting list  21,140,032
Elective: booked  15,147,912
Elective: planned 18,789,023
Emergency: via Accident and Emergency 24,357,930
Emergency: via GP 6,472,990
Emergency: via Bed Bureau     486,917
Emergency: via outpatient clinic  1,142,200
Emergency: other  2,622,600