Hospital Admissions (Hansard, 10 May 1989)

§ Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give for each year since 1970, and for each health region, the total number of hospital admissions on a day-case basis.

Day cases attendances, NHS hospitals, by region, 1972 to 1987–88
	1972¹	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987–88²
Northern	32,170	31,308	31,001	29,316	33,573	37,875	41,341	46,416	54,023	56,219	52,833	66,093	68,658	75,473	81,047	83,335
Yorkshire	32,557	33,646	38,457	38,252	46,741	54,683	55,097	55,060	60,680	62,788	58,883	70,869	72,718	76,174	81,635	74,933
Trent	37,354	30,743	35,449	33,061	38,453	40,532	42,083	48,511	57,314	61,260	58,140	72,003	80,159	85,691	95,092	67,866
East Anglian	12,956	13,663	14,735	17,253	23,319	26,092	28,093	28,314	32,675	33,916	30,768	33,235	35,818	39,572	42,022	28,955
North-West Thames3	23,998	31,853	23,843	20,992	24,733	28,471	29,460	37,649	41,028	44,219	43,330	49,494	58,558	63,170	67,766	50,091
North-East Thames3	32,623	23,643	34,607	35,282	33,396	36,813	38,294	39,871	41,910	47,208	48,744	51,725	57,850	67,472	70,304	51,924
South-East Thames3	21,257	25,808	27,010	23,909	30,012	38,272	40,903	42,706	44,705	45,117	49,717	59,983	72,702	66,323	71,323	48,855
South-West Thames3	13,252	15,285	17,315	18,807	22,585	23,795	20,406	23,519	28,827	37,867	32,836	33,676	39,613	45,395	56,449	53,391
Wessex	20,367	21,780	28,009	26,698	34,297	35,816	37,695	36,962	43,210	44,029	44,665	49,226	54,300	59,340	63,297	46,876
Oxford	15,864	15,930	18,780	17,967	18,203	21,216	23,146	21,656	23,882	23,824	23,585	27,183	29,931	35,184	39,901	43,809
South Western	31,321	29,716	32,790	30,923	32,257	38,104	39,397	40,037	40,099	43,095	44,685	48,878	51,614	62,168	63,375	55,306
West Midlands	34,998	42,962	48,517	41,810	46,477	49,793	51,614	51,769	61,532	64,847	64,973	74,215	80,097	83,251	93,403	60,500
Mersey	41,625	43,890	44,062	36,741	39,193	40,285	41,787	44,460	55,556	54,509	55,490	62,979	70,554	69,403	79,098	79,740
North Western	47,726	48,271	51,532	46,613	53,471	60,068	68,080	70,608	79,217	88,143	85,874	99,994	115,410	116,317	125,564	120,368
¹ Day case figures were not collected before 1972
² Some patients previously classified as day cases may since April 1987 be newly classified as ward attenders.
³ Figures for these regions are not strictly comparable over the whole period, due to NHS restructuring in 1982.