Accident and Emergency Departments
(asked on 17th December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on average, how many patients were admitted to A&E on a (a) Monday, (b) Tuesday, (c) Wednesday, (d) Thursday, (e) Friday, (f) Saturday and (g) Sunday in the last 12 months for which data is available.
The average (mean) number of patients who died in accident and emergency (A&E) and who attended A&E on a (a) Monday, (b) Tuesday, (c) Wednesday, (d) Thursday, (e) Friday, (f) Saturday and (g) Sunday in 2013-14 is shown in the following table. These figures are taken from the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). Final data for 2014-15 will be published on 28 January 2016.
Weekday | Average (mean) deaths in A&E department | Average (mean) attendances at A&E |
Monday | 59.3 | 55,212.7 |
Tuesday | 54.0 | 49,660.8 |
Wednesday | 56.0 | 48,667.0 |
Thursday | 53.7 | 48,600.3 |
Friday | 55.6 | 47,932.3 |
Saturday | 55.8 | 48,614.6 |
Sunday | 57.1 | 50,202.9 |
Source: (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre
Notes:
1. The table shows the mean of A&E attendances, and the mean of A&E attendances where the patient died in the department, by weekday for 2013-14. The HES A&E database is recorded at attendance level, not patient level.
2. The data cannot be described as an average number of people as the same person may have had more than one A&E attendance within the time period presented.
3. The data excludes planned follow-up attendances.