Accident and Emergency Departments

Lord Patel Excerpts

Monday 30th November 2015 Lords Chamber

[Lord Prior of Brampton]

The report done by Queen Mary’s, which was based in Oxford, indicated that the under-fives attending A&E departments accounted for 7% of all attendances, which gives an idea of the scale of what we might try to achieve. The reduction, in real terms, in local authority spending over the next five years is 3.9% per annum. Our feeling is that local authorities are well equipped to live with that kind of reduction.

[Lord Patel (CB)]

How good are A&E departments nationally at collecting information on the nature of the accident, and at root cause analysis to prevent it, and how is this information fed into a national database?

[Lord Prior of Brampton]

I am afraid that I am not aware of how A&E departments collect and collate this information, but I will write to the noble Lord on that matter.