Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many A&E Departments in NHS hospitals treated more than 300 patients per day in (a) Harlow, (b) Essex (c) the East of England and (d) England in each of the last five years.
A count of National Health Service hospital provider sites with an average of over 300 accident and emergency (A&E) attendances per day in Harlow, Essex, East of England and England, in the financial years 2012-13 to 2016-17, is shown in the following table.
Due to coding issues within NHS Digital’s Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) dataset, as well as some providers running multiple A&E departments from the same hospital site, there may be undercounts within the data. Figures shown are representative of the number of admissions, not the number of individual patients as a person may have more than one attendance within the time periods shown:
Area | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
Harlow | - | - | - | - | - |
Essex | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
East of England | - | - | 2 | 3 | 3 |
England | 43 | 46 | 55 | 63 | 66 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital