Please note: Encompass is a new electronic patient record system with a single digital care record for every citizen in Northern Ireland who receives health and social care. It aims to create better experiences for patients, service users and staff by bringing together information from various legacy health systems into one administrative system. The programme was first introduced in the South Eastern Health and Social (HSC) Trust on 9th November 2023, the Belfast HSC Trust on 6th June 2024, the Northern HSC Trust on 7th November 2024, and the Southern and Western HSC Trusts on 8th May 2025. Figures sourced from encompass are considered to be ‘official statistics in development’ which are a subset of Official Statistics in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics. While caution must be exercised when using these figures, they are a meaningful representation of what they measure and are of sufficient quality for publication and use.

Please note that attendances at Urgent Care Centres are reported with Type 3 emergency departments as they provide an equivalent service. Only total attendance figures are available from Craigavon and Daisy Hill UCCs, as these services’ data is held on the GP system and not on encompass. Note: Southern HSC Trust suffered a major IT outage on 17th September 2025 and therefore figures for September may have been impacted.