Health Services: Birmingham
(asked on 21st February 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of NHS (a) operations, (b) appointments and (c) tests that took place in Birmingham between July-November (i) 2024 and (ii) 2023.
The scope of this data is limited to elective services consistent with consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times. It excludes emergency care, maternity, and mental health services. Birmingham has four trusts excluding these services, data for which has been aggregated into the table below. The following table shows the number of elective operations, outpatient appointments, and diagnostic tests, and the total of all three combined, delivered from July to November 2024 and from July to November 2023:
Time period | Elective operations | Outpatient appointments | Diagnostic tests | Total |
July to November 2024 | 105,253 | 708,569 | 260,143 | 1,073,965 |
July to November 2023 | 99,795 | 683,685 | 248,683 | 1,032,163 |
In addition, the following table shows the number elective operations, outpatient appointments, and diagnostic tests, and the total of all three combined, delivered from July to November 2023, adjusted for working days, and the number of addition appointments delivered in 2024:
| Elective operations | Outpatient appointments | Diagnostic tests | Total |
July to November 2023 adjusted for working days | 100,719 | 690,015 | 250,986 | 1,041,720 |
Additional appointments | 4,534 | 18,554 | 9,157 | 32,245 |
Note: the data excludes the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.