The number of stays between January and July was over 15,100, which is 15% decrease compared to the previous year. Thus the number of patients admitted is down by 10%. Individuals' stays are only getting shorter, and the average number of days of stay is now 4.5 days compared to 4.7 last year.

Most of the patients are admitted to the emergency units, which accounts for approximately 76.3% of the total admittance.

On average, five to six patients are admitted at any given time, who are already treated and are waiting for rehabilitation or placement in a nursing home.

Looking at the occupancy of the wards, it is much lower in all wards. The internal medicine ward has 90% occupancy, the surgical ward has over 79% and the psychiatric ward has almost 65% occupancy between January and July. This is due to the same reasons as above that discharges occur earlier than before and therefore bed occupancy is better as well as fewer patients.

Almost 7,700 people have received services in the outpatient wards, of which

1,410 people were given chemotherapy, compared to 1,270 people during the same period last year, and the number of people receiving these services is increasing steadily.

In the emergency units, the number of communications is the same as in the previous year or 10,709 compared to 10,668 at the same time last year (see graph on arrivals to the emergency wards from January to July each year). Waiting time for a doctor at the emergency room is now about 44 minutes, which is slightly outside our criteria for 40 minutes waiting for a doctor.

The number of surgeries performed between January and July totalled nearly 1,400, which is slightly less than last year, when nearly 1,500 surgeries were performed over the same period. Almost 33% of surgeries were emergency surgeries and 178 were artificial joint surgeries, compared to 190 surgeries last year.

The number of medical imaging examinations (without mammograms) was 23,777, making an average of 112 studies per day, which is comparable to the previous year. There is similar activity in the clinical laboratory and the physiology department as in the previous year.

There is still an increase in births, this year 236 babies were born compared to

229 children at the same time last year.

There is a significant decrease in arrivals and admissions of non-insured persons compared to the same period last year. Almost 400 people have sought emergency care and 54 have been admitted, whereas in the previous year 69 individuals had been admitted and 460 people had sought emergency care.