Table 5.

Distribution of visits to National Health Service services per patient per year for ‘newly diagnosed’ and ‘established’ patients

	‘Newly diagnosed’ (n=53)						‘Established’ (n=211)
	Visits per patient in first year after diagnosis			Visits per patient year (3 years’ data annualised)			Visits per patient year (3 years’ data annualised)
	No. patients attending [N (%)]	Median no. visits (range)	Mean no. visits (range)	No. patients attending [N (%)]	Median no. visits (range)	Mean no. visits (range)	No. patients attending [N (%)]	Median no. of visits (range)	Mean no. visits (range)
Pain-related GP visits	49 (92)	4.0 (0−12)	5.1 (0−12)	51 (96)	3.7 (0−11)	3.9 (0−11)	197 (93)	2.3 (0−21)	3.0 (0−21)
Non-pain-related GP visits	50 (94)	5.0 (0−37)	7.2 (0−37)	53 (100)	6.3 (0−27)	7.7 (0−27)	211 (100)	8.3 (0−43)	9.4 (0−43)
Physiotherapy	18 (34)	0.0 (0−11)	0.6 (0−11)	29 (55)	0.3 (0−5)	0.6 (0−5)	76 (36)	0.0 (0−7)	0.3 (0−7)
Outpatients	16 (30)	0.0 (0−4)	0.6 (0−4)	32 (60)	0.3 (0−4)	0.7 (0−4)	133 (63)	0.3 (0−7)	1.0 (0−7)
Inpatients	4 (8)	0.0 (0−1)	0.1 (0−1)	5 (9)	0.0 (0−0.3)	0.03 (0−0.3)	33 (16)	0.0 (0−2)	0.1 (0−2)
A&E	2 (4)	0.0 (0−1)	0.04 (0−1)	7 (13)	0.0 (0−0.3)	0.04 (0−0.3)	22 (10)	0.0 (0−1)	0.1 (0−1)
Day case	0	0	0	1 (2)	0.0 (0−0.3)	0.01 (0−0.3)	17 (8)	0.0 (0−3)	0.1 (0−3)