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Data Provider: Welsh Government Consultant led outpatient attendances by specialty
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Click here to sortNew attendancesA patient whose first attendance of a continuous series (or whose single attendance if only one is needed), at an out-patient clinic department for the same ailment falls within the period under review.Click here to sortTotal attendancesTotal number of attendances by out-patients during the period under review, whether or not the first attendance in a series occurred during the period. Data for individual specialties may not add up to the all specialties total for 2011-12.Click here to sortRatio of repeat attendances to new out-patientsThe mean number of repeat attendances by each new out-patient during the period under review. Calculated by subtracting \'new attendances\' from total attendances\' and dividing by \'new attendances\'.Click here to sortNew out-patients who did not attendNumber of patients with an appointment for a first attendance of a continuous series at a clinical out-patient department for the same ailment, who did not attend the appointment and failed to give warning to the hospital in advance.Click here to sortPercentage of new appointments not keptCalculated by multiplying \'new out-patients who did not attend\' by 100 and dividing by \'new out-patients\' plus \'new out-patients who did not attend\'.Click here to sortAll out-patients who did not attendTotal number of patients with an appointment for an attendance at a clinical out-patient department, who did not attend the appointment  and failed to give warning to the hospital in advance.Click here to sortPercentage of all appointments not keptCalculated by multiplying \'all out-patients who did not attend\' by 100 and dividing by \'total out-patients\' plus \'total out-patients who did not attend\'.
All specialtiesExcludes A&E and Special Care Baby Units. Data for A&E and Special Care Baby Units is included at the bottom of this table.937,6203,100,2732.379,1447.8290,7408.6
General Surgery81,086202,0911.56,2867.215,6017.2
Urology32,827100,2452.13,3479.39,3058.5
Trauma and Orthopaedic151,737452,8522.012,6977.742,0168.5
Ear, Nose and Throat62,422150,5151.45,4338.015,2959.2
Ophthalmology81,253326,2183.05,0265.823,0236.6
Oral Surgery36,69981,8651.23,2588.28,4189.3
Restorative Dentistry6,79644,1895.57089.43,3867.1
Paediatric Dentistry2,5417,9032.131611.11,36614.7
Orthodontics5,89452,1987.968510.45,6169.7
Neurosurgery1,7424,6801.71447.675813.9
Plastic Surgery3,94719,4793.92806.61,7928.4
Burns Surgery5242,1173.0163.01135.1
Cardiac Surgery1,3164,2902.3413.03868.3
Thoracic Surgery6221,9932.2466.91647.6
Paediatric Surgery1,5873,3291.127214.663115.9
Accident and Emergency1851,8078.83214.724511.9
Anaesthetics1,9517,3402.81276.15486.9
Pain Management5,37114,6231.75629.51,3928.7
General Medicine35,976129,5032.63,5689.016,12711.1
Gastroenterology14,51338,6801.71,3028.23,8229.0
Endocrinology4,79629,9715.255310.33,53410.5
Haematology (clinical)10,838118,83110.01,0799.110,3448.0
Clinical Physiology10,21315,0100.55194.81,2617.7
Clinical Pharmacology1438094.72514.915716.3
Audiological Medicine2,3494,3090.82599.991717.5
Clinical Genetics3815040.3245.9356.5
Clinical Immunology & Allergy9121,7720.917215.937117.3
Rehabilitation2,0115,5151.71858.45879.6
Palliative Medicine6651,8711.8395.51396.9
Cardiology28,89478,4641.71,8245.97,0908.3
Paediatric Cardiology1,0602,8811.713111.02688.5
Dermatology54,534154,7371.84,8198.113,7608.2
Thoracic Medicine16,67248,8251.91,6769.15,2869.8
Infectious diseases2786131.23912.38912.7
Genito Urinary Medicine41,48166,1780.61,6503.83,7255.3
Nephrology4,41345,4459.33948.24,6839.3
Medical Oncology1,71810,3345.0643.64223.9
Spinal Injuries3346713.2717.59116.3
Clinical Neuro-physiology1,5611,5850.0462.9472.9
Other Neurology16,64439,7491.41,87610.14,1499.5
Rheumatology21,47487,2463.11,4606.47,9918.4
Paediatrics24,82987,8022.53,29711.714,74714.4
Paediatric Neurology3491,8894.48118.830714.0
Dental Medicine1,1643,1621.712910.044112.2
Gynaecology66,340147,1371.26,2108.614,7459.1
GP Other1,4392,1160.5563.7673.1
Clinical Oncology9,64586,1637.94134.15,1565.6
Radiology8339220.1323.7394.1
Geriatric Medicine8,88032,6562.76176.53,3089.2
Obstetrics - AN29,256106,9172.72,4047.69,2398.0
Obstetrics - PN7465.600.0916.4
Midwifery16,19328,8440.86163.72,5438.1
Mental Illness13,57084,1535.23,15218.819,08218.5
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry4,15927,4855.62585.82,1457.2
Forensic Psychiatry7582,1791.9273.42128.9
Psychotherapy3192,2976.2144.2371.6
Old Age Psychiatry6,86927,3763.06218.32,6678.9
Learning Disabilities4484,5949.3479.53627.3
General Pathology1261,0187.13320.816313.8
Chemical Pathology1,2372,8821.314510.536111.1
Haematology (non clinical)1,11088,39578.600.0500.1
Medical Microbiology19461.400.012.1
Community Medicine11210.9531.31134.4
Nursing01,145.The data item is not applicable0.The data item is not applicable987.9
A&ENot included in the \'all specialties\' total. There exists another data source for A&E attendance data in Wales (Emergency Department Data Set - EDDS), which is likely to contain different attendance figures to those presented here.993,5221,059,3410.150.050.0
Special Care Baby UnitsNot included in the \'all specialties\' total.26822.2413.399.9

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Hlth0310: Outpatient attendances

Health Statistics and Analysis Unit, Welsh Government

Last Update: 31 October 2012

Next Update: To be confirmed

Source: QS1
Contact: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

This table provides data on numbers of new and total outpatient attendances at NHS hospitals by specialty, hospital and Local Health Board. Only those seen in consultant lead clinic are included. Data on patients seen in nurse lead clinics are shown elsewhere.

Following data quality assessments and reviews of the data, the Welsh Government will be changing to using the Outpatient Activity Data Set (OPA DS) as the source of the official statistics for outpatient activity in the NHS in Wales for 2012-13 data onwards rather than the QS1 return. The reasons for this are to:
- Have just one definitive source of data for outpatient activity data;
- Remove the burden on data providers of supplying data for two similar data sets;
- Remove the confusion for analysts and users which exists by having two similar data sets, containing different data in some cases; and
- Allow more granularity for research and data mining (the OPA DS provides patient level data, whereas the QS1 data collection provides high level, summary data).
If you have any comments on this approach, then please let us know via the contact details above. Further details will follow.

Outpatients

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Hlth0310 Outpatients consultant lead