Accident and Emergency Departments
(asked on 16th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people presenting at A&E who do not require hospital treatment.
NHS Digital and NHS England’s joint ‘Hospital Accident and Emergency Activity 2016-17’ publication shows accident and emergency (A&E) activity in the 2016-17 financial year.
The publication shows the number of attendances categorised by ‘first A&E treatment’, including those which were subsequently categorised as not needing hospital treatment. These are categorised as “none (consider guidance/advice option)”.The data for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 financial years is available in the table below:
Year | Number of A&E attendances not requiring hospital treatment | Percentage of all A&E attendances |
2015-16 | 2,164,828 | 10.6% |
2016-17 | 2,117,049 | 10.1% |
Source: Hospital Accident and Emergency Activity 2016-17
The ‘Hospital Accident and Emergency Activity 2016-17’ publication is available via the link below: