Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
(asked on 17th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients were seen within four hours in A&E in (a) 2018-19 and (b) each year since 2010-11.
NHS Digital and NHS England publishes annual accident and emergency (A&E) activity in National Health Service hospitals at the following link:
The percentage of patient attendances spending four hours or less in A&E, 2009-10 to 2018-19 can be found in the following table.
- | % 4 Hours or Less |
2009-10 | 98.3% |
2010-11 | 97.4% |
2011-12 | 96.6% |
2012-13 | 95.9% |
2013-14 | 95.7% |
2014-15 | 93.6% |
2015-16 | 91.9% |
2016-17 | 89.1% |
2017-18 | 88.3% |
2018-19 | 88.0% |
Source: NHS England and NHS Digital