Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

(asked on 5th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his department has made on ensuring that all hospitals with major A&E departments record 100 per cent of patient activity in A&E, Urgent Treatment Centres and Same Day Emergency Care via the Emergency Care Data Set by March 2020; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 14th June 2019

As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and NHS Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.

The majority of major accident and emergency (A&E) departments (Type 1 and 2) are recording A&E activity via Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) nationally. NHS England is supporting providers through transition and it is expected that 100% will be submitting data to ECDS by September 2019.

NHS England is also supporting urgent treatment centres so 100% will be recording activity via ECDS by March 2020.

The programme of work to record same day emergency care data on ECDS is in pilot phase. Following a full impact assessment of the pilot, implementation plans towards the March 2020 ambition will be set.

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