Publication, Part of Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity
Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity 2020-21
National statistics, Accredited official statistics
Summary Report - ACC - Days
Critical Care records by start and discharge day, 2020-21
This chart shows the distribution of critical care records through the week.
Most critical care records started on a weekday (185,984 records, 79.1 per cent).
Just under half (48.2 per cent) of discharges were between Wednesday and Friday.
Critical Care - Average length of stay by start day, 2020-21
Although we can see from the previous chart that fewer critical care records start at the weekend, the average length of stay for patients that were admitted on a Saturday or Sunday was one day longer compared with those admitted on a weekday.
Critical Care - Average length of stay by discharge day, 2020-21
The average length of stay was longest for critical care records ending on a Monday (6.1 days).
This is over 1 day longer than discharges at the end of the working week (1.6 days longer than Saturdays, 1.1 days longer than Sundays).
Patients discharged on a Saturday had the shortest average length of stay at 4.5 days, a full day longer than the average for a Saturday discharge in 2019-20.
Last edited: 10 January 2023 2:41 pm