Senators may be interested to know that there was a total of 920,000 discharges from acute hospitals last year. This equates to some 2,500 discharges per day for every single day of the year. Comparing the current numbers on hospital in-patient waiting lists to the total number of discharges shows that waiting lists represent less than 3% of all discharges. This will give Senators some idea of the scale of activity taking place in acute hospitals.