The data set shows the number of emergency inpatient spells admitted to providers of NHS healthcare in 2013. A spell starts when a patient is admitted to bed in hospital setting under the care of a consultant and ends on discharge or death.
The majority of these emergency spells for the BANES Registered population are admitted to the RUH but other NHS Trusts also provide care for local patients.
For Information Governance and patient confidentiality any numbers lower than 5 have been suppressed.
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