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Health

Outpatient Attendances (A&E, SOCs, Polyclinics, Dental)

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:05 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Attendances at Accident & Emergency Departments, Specialist Outpatient Clinics, Polyclinics and Public Sector Dental Clinics

Count by Year

Data explorer

OutpatientAttendancesAESOCsPolyclinicsDental.csv (64 rows, 2 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Type
Text
Count
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2006A&E676763
2006Specialist Outpatient Clinics3624976
2006Polyclinics3769989
2006Public Sector Dental Clinics838466
2007A&E752122
2007Specialist Outpatient Clinics3687910
2007Polyclinics3797953
2007Public Sector Dental Clinics889210
2008A&E788539
2008Specialist Outpatient Clinics3827275

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
TypetypeText--
CountcountNumericAttendances-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e818f045a9681df2db90a493803a60d2"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Health. (2016). Outpatient Attendances (A&E, SOCs, Polyclinics, Dental) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e818f045a9681df2db90a493803a60d2/view

About this dataset

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Created on

07 Jul 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)