Table 2.

Trends in percentage of day surgery admissions for procedures in the Audit Commission's collection of 25 procedures

Year	No of inpatients	No of day surgery cases	% day surgery cases*
1996-7	413 309	519 128	55.7
1997-8	370 295	504 213	57.7
1998-9	408 910	618 759	60.2
1999-2000	373 413	617 992	62.3
2000-1	353 824	636 513	64.3
2001-2	337 493	639 668	65.5
2002-3	349 826	684 854	66.2
2003-4	346 332	708 236	67.2

^*χ² test for trend; P<0.001