Accident and Emergency Departments

(asked on 11th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS hospitals had comprehensive front-door clinical streaming in (a) March 2017 and (b) October 2017.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 15th December 2017

Information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available confirms that there were 41 out of 138 acute National Health Service trusts with a type 1 accident and emergency (A&E) which had front-door clinical streaming in place in July 2017. In October 2017 this number had increased to 125 out of 137 acute NHS trusts with a type 1 A&E.

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