NHS inpatient and outpatient waiting events figures for the quarter ending 31 December 2014 include data for England, Area Teams and NHS Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).

The latest quarterly statistics on NHS inpatient and outpatient waiting events produced by NHS England were released on 27 February 2015 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

The figures for a quarter can be affected by the number of working days, and data are adjusted for this where appropriate, to allow comparison on a like-for-like basis.  October to December 2013 and October to December 2014 both had 64 working days. This means that we have not needed to make adjustments for working days in the figures below.

The key points from the latest release are:

Inpatient Events

From Q3 2013/14 to Q3 2014/15 the number of decisions to admit increased by 63,188 (4.3%) to 1.5 million. The number of elective admissions from the list increased by 46,012 (3.4%) to 1.4 million.

Outpatient Referrals and attendances

From Q3 2013/14 to Q3 2014/15 the number of GP referrals made increased by 91,332 (3.0%) to 3.2 million and the number of other referrals made decreased by 4,763 (-0.3%) to 1.9 million.

From Q3 2013/14 to Q3 2014/15 first attendances at consultant outpatient clinics increased by 185,216 (4.2%) to 4.6 million and total attendances increased by 424,529 (3.0%) to 14.4 million.

Did not attend (DNA) rate for first outpatients appointment for Q3 2014/15 was 8.8% compared to 8.5% for Q3 2013/14.
The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust did not submit data for this quarter.

In line with our revisions policy, we have published revisions covering the periods Q1 2013/14 to Q2 2014/15.

Notes

The data are available using the link below.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/hospital-activity/quarterly-hospital-activity/qar-data/