outpatient

A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care.

An empty shop at Birmingham New Street station has been converted into an NHS outpatient clinic, to enable patients to have routine blood tests away from hospital.

Provided without requiring an overnight stay by the patient.

MR. MILLER: It is more outpatient than it is inpatient.

The changes are necessary because "health care is going more outpatient than inpatient," Whitacre said.