Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number of people who (a) were under the age of 18 and (b) from Southport constituency who attended (i) Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust and (ii) Ormskirk District General Hospital Children's Accident and Emergency Departments in each year from 2002-2023.

Whilst the information is not available in the format requested, NHS England publishes information on accident and emergency attendance, which is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-accident--emergency-activity

Accident and emergency attendance data is available for Adler Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust from 2008/09. The following tables respectively show the accident and emergency attendance for patients between zero and 17 years old in each of the last three years, and the accident and emergency attendance for patients between zero and 19 years old each year from 2008/09, at Adler Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust:

Notes:

1. Accident and emergency data is published at a National Health Service trust level, not at hospital site level, and therefore attendance data is not available by constituency; and
2. on the 1 July 2023, Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust was dissolved and its services transferred to Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.