Table · dataset · 2020

Annual Outpatient Activity

Listed in NHS Scotland Open Data Portal

Patients who require the medical opinion of a specialist clinician may be referred to an outpatient clinic for treatment or investigation.

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An outpatient is a patient who attends (outpatient attendance) a consultant or other medical clinic or has an arranged meeting with a consultant or a senior member of their team outwith a clinic session. Outpatients are not admitted to a hospital and do not use a hospital bed.

Outpatient attendances can be categorised as new or follow-up (return) attendances. Please note that there have been outpatient methodological changes for this publication. Previously, the ISD(S)1 outpatients data source was used for return outpatient activity due to poorer completeness for historical SMR00 return outpatients.

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SMR00 return outpatients data are now more complete meaning SMR00 data can be used for both new and return outpatients. As a result, figures from the Annual September 2025 publication onwards will not be directly comparable to previous publications. Please refer to the publication report and data issues and completeness document for further information: publichealthscotland.scot/publications/acute-hospital-activity-and-nhs-beds-information-annual/ A variety of operations are carried out in NHSScotland and, increasingly, less complex procedures are undertaken in an outpatient setting.

For further information on these procedures, see the Operations/Procedures section of the Public Health Scotland website. Further information on hospital activity can be found in the recent annual publication.

The date of the next release can be found on our list of forthcoming publications publichealthscotland.scot/publications/forthcoming-publications/

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Stated by source: Acute Hospital Activity · Hospital Activity
From keywords: Medicine & Health

Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions

Source	Key	Last seen	Raw
NHS Scotland Open Data Portal	d57ceb20-4449-4c3b-b07c-d2affe9b8dc0	12 d ago	JSON v1

Field	Assertion	Extractor	Evidence
access_level	source · opendata nhs scot	connector:opendata_nhs_scot@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:medicine-health	mapping · opendata nhs scot	connector:opendata_nhs_scot@1.0.0
concepts[topic].ckan_group:opendata_nhs_scot:acute-hospital-activity	source · opendata nhs scot	connector:opendata_nhs_scot@1.0.0
concepts[topic].ckan_group:opendata_nhs_scot:hospital-activity	source · opendata nhs scot	connector:opendata_nhs_scot@1.0.0
created_date	source · opendata nhs scot	connector:opendata_nhs_scot@1.0.0
description	source · opendata nhs scot	connector:opendata_nhs_scot@1.0.0	/notes
license_text	source · opendata nhs scot	connector:opendata_nhs_scot@1.0.0
publication_date	source · opendata nhs scot	connector:opendata_nhs_scot@1.0.0
title	source · opendata nhs scot	connector:opendata_nhs_scot@1.0.0	/title
updated_date	source · opendata nhs scot	connector:opendata_nhs_scot@1.0.0

Annual Outpatient Activity

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