During the financial year 2023/24, the busiest hospital provider in England was the ************************************************ with over *** thousand admissions. This trust encompasses four hospitals in the Birmingham area, one of the largest urban areas in England. The second-busiest trust this year was the ******************************************, with approximately *** thousand admissions. Accident and emergency admissionsFrom April to June 2023, there were around *** million accident and emergency (A&E) attendees (including at A&E departments not in hospitals) in England. After the drop in A&E attendances during the COVID-pandemic, numbers have risen again to previous levels, with a trend towards an increasing number of individuals seeking emergency care. Over ***** percent of A&E attendees in England in 2022/23 were first diagnosed with a sprained ankle, knee, wrist, or foot, and over **** percent were diagnosed with a respiratory infection. Furthermore, *** percent were found to have ‘no abnormality detected’ which could be detrimental to a service that is already stretched. Waiting too longOver the last few years in the A&E department, the NHS has been falling behind the target that ** percent of patients should be seen within **** hours of arrival. The last time this target was reached was back in July 2015. Not just the A&E department, but other services also require lengthy waits. It is no wonder that the ******** of respondents surveyed were fairly or very dissatisfied with the length of wait for many aspects of NHS care. Moreover, in general, levels of satisfaction with the way NHS runs is at an all-time low.

This is a publication on Accident and Emergency (A&E) activity in English NHS hospitals and English NHS-commissioned activity in the independent sector. This annual publication covers the financial year ending March 2022. It contains final data and replaces the provisional data that are published each month. This is a joint publication between NHS Digital and NHS England. This collaboration enables data to be brought together from different sources enabling inclusion of a wider set of breakdowns and measures and a more complete picture to be presented. The data sources for this publication are the Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) for2020-21 and 2021-22, HES A&E for activity prior to 2020-21 and the A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions Monthly Situation Reports (MSitAE). This is the second year this report has been produced using ECDS in its submitted format, replacing the use of Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). Further information is available in the Data Quality Statement. The ECDS data set contains several new and additional reporting fields not previously available in HES A&E enabling new insights to be identified from data. Reported information based on these new splits and metrics presented within the report are presented as Experimental Statistics and should be used with caution. Experimental statistics are new official statistics undergoing evaluation. They are published in order to involve users and stakeholders in their development and as a means to build in quality at an early stage. More information about experimental statistics can be found on the UK Statistics Authority website. This publication releases some high level analyses of both ECDS/HES and MSitAE data relating to A&E attendances in NHS hospitals, minor injury units and walk-in centres. It includes analysis by patient demographics, time spent in A&E, distributions by time of arrival and day of week, arriving by ambulance, performance times, waits for admission and re-attendances to A&E within 7 days. The following additional analyses are also included in this report: • Comparison of 4 hour and 12 hour waits between the four home nations, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales • A&E attendances by Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) • A&E attendances by ethnicity • Weekly variation in attendance activity during the pandemic, by department type

From April 2023 to March 2024, the busiest day of the week was Monday, with nearly *********** people attending the accident and emergency room in England. The number of A&E gradually decreases throughout the week, with a small increase going from Saturday to Sunday.

Between July and September 2019, there were almost 1.5 million admissions to NHS hospitals in England. Over the provided time interval, that is the quarter with the highest number of admissions.

Busiest hospitals in England

During the financial year 2018/19, the busiest hospital provider in England was the University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust with almost 393.6 thousand admissions. This trust encompasses four hospitals in the Birmingham area, one of the largest urban areas in England. The second busiest trust in this year was the Manchester University Foundation Trust with approximately 315.7 thousand admissions.

Emergency admissions

In the period 2018/19, there were over six million accident and emergency (A&E) attendees in each quarter of the year in England. Prior to 2017/18, no previous quarter in England since 2012 had reached six million A&E attendances, indicating an increasing number of individuals are seeking emergency care. Approximately 5.1 percent of A&E attendees in England in 2018/19 were primarily diagnosed with a dislocation, fracture, joint injury, or an amputation, followed by 5 percent diagnosed with a respiratory condition. Although 4.7 percent were found to have ‘nothing abnormal detected’ which could be detrimental to a service that is already stretched.

The number of hospital beds in the United Kingdom has undergone a decline since the year 2000. Whereas in 2000, there were around 240 thousand beds in the UK, by 2020 this figure was approximately 163 thousand. This means over this period there were over 80 thousand fewer hospital beds in the UK. However in the recent years since 2020, the number of hospital beds have been increasing, the first time in the recorded time period.

Fewer beds but admissions are still high

There were almost 16.4 million admissions to hospital between April 2022 to March 2023 in England. The number of admissions has recovered somewhat since the drop in year 2020/21. The busiest hospital trust in England by admissions in the year 2022/23 was the University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust with over 333 thousand admissions. The average length of stay in hospitals in the UK in 2021 for acute care was seven days.

Accident and Emergency

In the first quarter of 2023/24, A&E in England received around 6.5 million attendees. The number of attendances has been creeping upwards since 2012. Around 2.4 percent of people attending A&E in the last year were diagnosed with an upper respiratory condition, followed by 1.8 percent with a lower respiratory tract infection.

In the period from 2010 to 2022, the average length of hospital stay for acute care in the United Kingdom (UK) has not changed significantly. In 2010, the average length of stay in hospital was *** days, by 2022 it was *** days after remaining at six days in intervening years. High amount of admissions to hospital There were almost *** million admissions to hospital between January and March 2018 in England. This quarterly figure of admissions has remained fairly consistent since 2014. The busiest hospital trust in England by admissions in the year 2017/18 was the Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust with almost *** thousand admissions. Situation in Accident and Emergency In the third quarter of 2017/18, A&E in England received over six million attendees. The number of attendances has been creeping upwards since 2012. *** percent of people attending A&E in the last year were diagnosed with a dislocation, fracture, joint injury or amputation, followed by *** percent with a respiratory condition.

During the financial year 2023/24, the busiest emergency department in England was the ************************************************* with over *** thousand emergency admissions. This trust encompasses four hospitals in the Birmingham area, one of the largest urban areas in England. The second-busiest trust that year was the ****************************************, with approximately *** thousand admissions.

This report shows monthly numbers of NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) staff working in NHS Trusts and other core organisations in England (excluding primary care staff). Data are available as headcount and full-time equivalents and for all months from 30 September 2009 onwards. These data are a summary of the validated data extracted from the NHS HR and Payroll system. Additional statistics on staff in NHS Trusts and other core organisations and information for NHS Support Organisations and Central Bodies are published each: September (showing June statistics) December/January (showing September statistics) March (showing December statistics) June (showing March statistics) Quarterly NHS Staff Earnings, monthly NHS Staff Sickness Absence reports, and data relating to the General Practice workforce and the Independent Healthcare Provider workforce are also available via the Related Links below. We welcome feedback on the methodology and tables within this publication. Please email us with your comments and suggestions, clearly stating Monthly HCHS Workforce as the subject heading, via enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk or 0300 303 5678.

This is a publication on maternity activity in English NHS hospitals. This report examines data relating to delivery and birth episodes in 2022-23, and the booking appointments for these deliveries. This annual publication covers the financial year ending March 2023. Data is included from both the Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) data warehouse and the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS). HES contains records of all admissions, appointments and attendances for patients admitted to NHS hospitals in England. The HES data used in this publication are called 'delivery episodes'. The MSDS collects records of each stage of the maternity service care pathway in NHS-funded maternity services, and includes information not recorded in HES. The MSDS is a maturing, national-level dataset. In April 2019 the MSDS transitioned to a new version of the dataset. This version, MSDS v2.0, is an update that introduced a new structure and content - including clinical terminology, in order to meet current clinical practice and incorporate new requirements. It is designed to meet requirements that resulted from the National Maternity Review, which led to the publication of the Better Births report in February 2016. This is the fourth publication of data from MSDS v2.0 and data from 2019-20 onwards is not directly comparable to data from previous years. This publication shows the number of HES delivery episodes during the period, with a number of breakdowns including by method of onset of labour, delivery method and place of delivery. It also shows the number of MSDS deliveries recorded during the period, with breakdowns including the baby's first feed type, birthweight, place of birth, and breastfeeding activity; and the mothers' ethnicity and age at booking. There is also data available in a separate file on breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks. The count of Total Babies includes both live and still births, and previous changes to how Total Babies and Total Deliveries were calculated means that comparisons between 2019-20 MSDS data and later years should be made with care. Information on how all measures are constructed can be found in the HES Metadata and MSDS Metadata files provided below. In this publication we have also included an interactive Power BI dashboard to enable users to explore key NHS Maternity Statistics measures. The purpose of this publication is to inform and support strategic and policy-led processes for the benefit of patient care. This report will also be of interest to researchers, journalists and members of the public interested in NHS hospital activity in England. Any feedback on this publication or dashboard can be provided to enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk, under the subject “NHS Maternity Statistics”.

In 2023, 64 percent of services received at NHS acute hospitals were considered good, whereas 25 percent required improvement. This statistic displays the overall rating of NHS acute hospitals core services in England as of August 2023.

This is a publication on maternity activity in English NHS hospitals. This report examines data relating to delivery and birth episodes in 2019-20, and the booking appointments for these deliveries. This annual publication covers the financial year ending March 2020. Data is included from both the Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) data warehouse and the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS). HES contains records of all admissions, appointments and attendances for patients admitted to NHS hospitals in England. The HES data used in this publication are called 'delivery episodes'. The MSDS collects records of each stage of the maternity service care pathway in NHS-funded maternity services, and includes information not recorded in HES. The MSDS is a maturing, national-level dataset. For data in 2019-20, the MSDS transitioned to a new version of the dataset. MSDS v2.0 is an update to the existing data set that introduces a new structure and content, including clinical terminology, in order to meet current clinical practice and incorporate new requirements. It is designed to meet requirements that resulted from the National Maternity Review, which led to the publication of the Better Births report in February 2016. This is the first publication of data from MSDS v2.0, therefore data from this year is not directly comparable to previous years. This publication shows the number of HES delivery episodes during the period, with a number of breakdowns including by method of onset of labour, delivery method and place of delivery. It also shows the number of MSDS deliveries recorded during the period, with breakdowns including the baby's first feed type and the folic acid use. The purpose of this publication is to inform and support strategic and policy-led processes for the benefit of patient care. This document will also be of interest to researchers, journalists and members of the public interested in NHS hospital activity in England. A slight correction has been made to the rates table in tab TC1920 of the HES Provider Analysis file which now derives the correct totals excluding the unknowns. These are the denominators for the respective rates in the table so all the rates have been updated.

In 2022, NHS Northumberland CCG ranked highest in England with a health index score of ****, followed by North Yorkshire CCG and South Tyneside CCG with scores of **** and **** respectively. The health index score was calculated by measuring fifteen healthcare metrics relevant to costs, advanced technology and appointment availability, and satisfaction levels.

Discriminative performance of our best-performing XGB model in clinically relevant patient subpopulations.

Background Cataract, opacification of the lens, is one of the commonest causes of loss of useful vision, with an estimated 16 million people worldwide affected. Cataract surgery is the most frequently performed surgical procedure in the NHS with over 300,000 operations annually in England alone. This dataset spans the full cataract care pathway at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust. Information from the start of the hospital episode including the ophthalmological clinical assessment (details of ocular examination and vision), preoperative assessment (ocular biometry), moving to the surgery day and the chosen anaesthesia (type of anaesthetic), surgery (details of procedure, lens choice, any complications), postoperative recovery (postoperative events) and visual rehabilitation (refractive and visual outcomes).

Geography The West Midlands has a population of 5.9 million. The region includes a diverse ethnic, and socio-economic mix, with a higher than UK average of minority ethnic groups. It has a large number of elderly residents but is the youngest population in the UK. There are particularly high rates of diabetes, physical inactivity, obesity, and smoking.

Data source:
1. The Electronic Health Records held at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, providing direct acute services and specialist care across four hospital sites, with 2.2 million patient episodes per year, 2750 beds and 100 ITU beds. UHB runs a fully electronic healthcare record for systemic disease.

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The NHS is split into primary care - a first point of contact - usually provided by GPs, dentist and pharmacists, secondary 'hospital and community' care, and tertiary care such as specialized treatment e.g. neurosurgery and transplants. Secondary and tertiary care are provided by NHS providers. During the financial year 2020/21, there were a total of 219 NHS providers. The majority of these providers provide acute services such as accident and emergency care. This statistic shows the number of National Health Service (NHS) providers in the United Kingdom during 2020/21, by service.

In 2021, there were roughly 1.66 million individuals employed in hospitals in the UK, the largest number in Europe. Germany, France, and Turkey also had hospital employee numbers reaching over one million. This statistic displays the number of individuals employed in hospitals in Europe in 2021.

In 2015/16 there were approximately 2.36 million adults admitted to hospital in England due to an illness caused by smoking. By 2022/23 the number of hospital admissions as a result of smoking had increased to approximately 2.54 million, the largest number during the provided time period. Smoking prevalence across age groups in England In England in 2022, 21 percent of men and 15 percent of women aged between 25 and 34 years were current smokers. This is the highest share of male smokers across the age groups, while the age group of 45 to 54 years had the second-largest proportion of female smokers at 18 percent. Situation north of the border In Scotland, the share of regular smokers was quite evenly distributed among all ages, except for those aged over 75 years who were smoking less. In 2023, 16 percent of men and 13 percent of women overall in Scotland were current smokers. 

As of April 30, 2020, the largest concern relating to the coronavirus pandemic among hospital doctors in the UK is the longer-term impact on patient clinical demand, with almost 39 percent filing this as their top concern. A further 22.9 percent said that the longer-term impact of new working arrangements was their biggest concern relating to the pandemic.

The latest number of cases in the UK can be found here. For further information about the coronavirus pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

As of February 2025, AstraZeneca Plc was by far the leading healthcare company listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) with a total market capitalization of *** billion British pounds. This was followed by GSK Plc and Haleon Plc, with a value of over ** billion and ** billion British pounds, respectively.