Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
(asked on 8th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time in accident and emergency was (a) in Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, (b) in Queen's Hospital, (c) in King George Hospital, (d) across London and (e) in England in each of the last four (i) quarters and (ii) years.
The National Health Service Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) measure accident and emergency waiting times from arrival to assessment, treatment and departure. A table showing the mean and median waiting times for 2010-11 to 2013-14 and quarters 1 to 4 of 2013-14 is below. Data for individual hospital sites are not published.
Duration to Assessment | Duration to Treatment | Duration to Departure | |||||
Year | Mean (minutes) | Median (minutes) | Mean (minutes) | Median (minutes) | Mean (minutes) | Median (minutes) | |
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust | 2010-11 | 37.5 | 13 | 96.3 | 88 | 195.1 | 188 |
2011-12 | 21.7 | 14 | 98.6 | 90 | 198.6 | 188 | |
2012-13 | 19.7 | 13 | 100.2 | 90 | 201.6 | 186 | |
2013-14 | 21.5 | 14 | 93.8 | 83 | 196.6 | 182 | |
Quarter 1 2013-14 | 21.7 | 14 | 96.9 | 85 | 195.0 | 180 | |
Quarter 2 2013-14 | 21.2 | 14 | 92.0 | 82 | 186.5 | 177 | |
Quarter 3 2013-14 | 20.6 | 14 | 87.4 | 76 | 197.4 | 181 | |
Quarter 4 2013-14 | 22.6 | 15 | 98.5 | 88 | 207.6 | 189 | |
London | 2010-11 | 89.8 | 11 | 143.6 | 86 | 161.6 | 152 |
2011-12 | 38.9 | 11 | 89.6 | 67 | 150.8 | 143 | |
2012-13 | 29.4 | 11 | 81.6 | 62 | 155.8 | 146 | |
2013-14 | 58.8 | 11 | 86.5 | 61 | 166.9 | 146 | |
Quarter 1 2013-14 | 53.9 | 11 | 88.1 | 63 | 163.1 | 145 | |
Quarter 2 2013-14 | 54.4 | 11 | 85.2 | 60 | 158.6 | 142 | |
Quarter 3 2013-14 | 60.2 | 12 | 84.6 | 60 | 168.8 | 146 | |
Quarter 4 2013-14 | 66.6 | 13 | 88.0 | 63 | 177.0 | 152 | |
England | 2010-11 | 64.5 | 10 | 98.4 | 58 | 145.7 | 130 |
2011-12 | 33.1 | 8 | 75.4 | 52 | 138.2 | 125 | |
2012-13 | 30.3 | 8 | 74.0 | 53 | 141.4 | 128 | |
2013-14 | 38.2 | 9 | 70.2 | 51 | 144.6 | 129 | |
Quarter 1 2013-14 | 35.7 | 9 | 70.8 | 52 | 143.2 | 127 | |
Quarter 2 2013-14 | 37.4 | 8 | 69.5 | 50 | 139.5 | 125 | |
Quarter 3 2013-14 | 39.3 | 8 | 69.3 | 50 | 145.5 | 130 | |
Quarter 4 2013-14 | 40.4 | 9 | 71.0 | 52 | 150.3 | 132 | |
Source: HES, HSCIC.
Notes:
1. Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
2. Mean and Median: The mean (average) and median (middle in ranking when all values are sorted in order) duration in minutes to assessment, treatment or duration.
3. Duration to assessment: This is the total amount of time in minutes between the patients’ arrival and their initial assessment in the accident and emergency (A&E) department. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&E to the time when the patient is initially assessed.
4. Duration to treatment: This is the total amount of time in minutes between the patients’ arrival and the start of their treatment. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&E to the time when the patient began treatment.
5. Duration to departure: This is total amount of time spent in minutes in an A&E department. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&E to the time when the patient is discharged from A&E care. This includes being admitted to hospital, dying in the department, discharged with no follow up or discharged and referred to another specialist department.
6. London area: For years 2011-12 and 2012-13, this data covers all trusts within the London Strategic Health Authority. For 2013-14, all trusts located within the London Area Team are included.
7. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in NHS practice.