Accident and Emergency Departments
(asked on 6th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people attended A&E in Q4 of (a) 2017-18 and (b) each year since 2010-11.
Information about accident and emergency (A&E) activity – including the number of attendances, performance against the four-hour standard, and the number of admissions – is published on a monthly basis by NHS England and can be found online at the following address:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/
In Q4 2017/18, there were 5,867,668 A&E attendances across all A&E department types. 85.0% of these attendances were seen and admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours. There were 1,116,862 emergency admissions via type 1 A&E departments.
The annual totals for each year since 2010/11 are given in the table below.
Year | Total A&E attendances, | Percentage attendances less than 4 hours, All types | Total emergency admissions, |
2010-11 | 21,380,985 | 97.4% | 3,478,743 |
2011-12 | 21,481,402 | 96.6% | 3,585,749 |
2012-13 | 21,738,637 | 95.9% | 3,727,062 |
2013-14 | 21,778,657 | 95.7% | 3,792,806 |
2014-15 | 22,354,781 | 93.6% | 3,968,027 |
2015-16 | 22,920,435 | 91.9% | 4,081,806 |
2016-17 | 23,362,301 | 89.1% | 4,204,184 |
2017-18 | 23,878,145 | 88.4% | 4,401,257 |