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More out-patient consultations
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Specialist health service, psychiatry, 2002

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More out-patient consultations

Preliminary figures show a strong growth in the number of outpatient consultations in 2002. More than 834 000 consultations were carried out at psychiatric institutions, an increase of almost 100 000 compared with 2001.

The increase has taken place in institutions for adults as well as in institutions for children and adolescents, an 11 per cent increase for adults and 21 per cent increase for children and adolescents respectively.

Increase in man-years

Psychiatric staffing, measured in man-years, is still rising. From 2001 till 2002 the number of man-years in adult psychiatry rose by almost 2 per cent. The corresponding figure for children and adolescents psychiatry increased more than 8 per cent.

Beds

The decline in the number of beds at psychiatric institutions for adults continues. The number of beds at psychiatric institutions for children and adolescents increased from 316 in 2001 to 320 in 2002.

Psychiatry. 1990-2002. Key figures
  1990 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 20025
Beds 8 011 6 667 6 573 6 368 46 290 36 155 6 091 5 821 5 720
Beds in psychiatric institutions for adults 7 745 6 384 6 277 6 064 5 975 5 840 5 781 5 505 5 400
Beds in psychiatric institutions for children and adolescents  266  283  296  304 4 315 3 315  310  316  320
Bed-days in 1 000 32 603 32 148 32 107 32 068 2 033 1 995 1 942 1 862 1 889
Discharges 21 242 26 113 27 131 28 948 30 201 32 373 34 969 436 550 37 571
Bed-days per discharge of whole-day patients 3 123 382 378 71 67 62 56 51 50
Out-patient consultations1(in 1 000)  396  611  575  591 4 623 3 666  696  736  834
Out-patient consultations1, psychiatric institutions for adults ( in 1 000)  272  429  435  449 4 475 3 504  528  555  615
Out-patient consultations1, psychiatric institutions for children and adolescents (in 1 000)  124  181  140  142  148  163  169  181  219
Outpatient consultations1 per 1 000 inhabitants 92  140  130  134  141 3 150  156  163  184
Total man-years2, psychiatric insititutions 14 469 14 806 15 079 15 504 15 844 316 190 16 554 17 203 17 666
Total man-years2, psychiatric institutions for adults 12 980 13 010 13 151 13 485 13 689 13 917 14 147 14 592 14 840
Total man-years2, psychiatric institutions for children and adolescents 1 490 1 796 1 928 2 019 2 155 32 273 2 407 2 611 2 827
Total man-years of physicians2 psychiatry  741  886  905  961 1 040 1 076 1 141 1 225 1 216
Total man-years of qualified nurses2 psychiatry 3 309 3 857 4 149 4 376 4 511 34 522 4 660 4 909 4 987
1  In 1996 the definition of out-patient consultations was changed.
2  Man-years is the number of full-time employees and part-time employees (converted to full-time employees) at the end of the year. Overtime is not included.
3  A number of figures has been corrected 09.19.01.
4  A number of figures has been corrected 05.26.03.
5  Preliminary figures.

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