Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the average wait time for a 111 call in each of the last 12 months.
Average NHS 111 call answer times in England in the last 12 months are displayed in the table below.
Month | Average time to answer NHS 111 call (seconds) |
Feb-22 | 267 |
Mar-22 | 396 |
Apr-22 | 368 |
May-22 | 226 |
Jun-22 | 380 |
Jul-22 | 394 |
Aug-22 | 411 |
Sep-22 | 195 |
Oct-22 | 366 |
Nov-22 | 388 |
Dec-22 | 1496 |
Jan-23 | 286 |
Source: NHS England Integrated Urgent Care Aggregate Data Collection