NHS – statistics to 2018
The NHS is the fifth largest employer in the world, behind McDonald’s, Walmart the US Department of Defense and China’s People’s Liberation Army
The NHS deals with over 1 million patients every 36 hours
Full-time GPs treat an average of 255 patients a week
In a typical week, 1.4 million people will receive help in their home from the NHS.
There were 16.252m total hospital admissions in 2015/16, 28 per cent more than a decade earlier 58.
The total annual attendances at Accident & Emergency departments was 23.372m in 2016/17, 23.5 per cent higher than a decade earlier 59.
At the end of April 2017, there were 3.783 million patients on the waiting list for treatment.
60. 68.7 per cent of Red 1 ambulance calls were responded to within eight minutes
Read 70 facts about the NHS 1948 to 2018
Source: NHS Media
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