Health Services: York
(asked on 2nd October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the median waiting time for (a) inpatient and (b) outpatient treatment was for patients in York in (i) May 2015 and (ii) May of each subsequent year.
Median elective waiting times, in days, for inpatient admissions and first outpatient attendances in York for May of each year from 2015 to 2019 is shown in the following table. This is a count of admissions/attendances, not people, as the same person may have been admitted or attended hospital on more than one occasion within any given time period.
| Inpatient admissions* | Outpatient first attendances* | ||
| Number of records with a valid waiting time | Median waiting time (days) | Number of records with a valid waiting time | Median waiting time (days) |
May 2015 | 1,585 | 41 | 3,235 | 32 |
May 2016 | 1,705 | 42 | 5,100 | 35 |
May 2017 | 1,760 | 48 | 4,830 | 36 |
May 2018 | 1,660 | 42 | 4,620 | 30 |
May 2019 | 1,570 | 51 | 4,275 | 33 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital | ||||
Note: Admitted patient care data for May 2019 and outpatient activity for May 2018 and 2019 is provisional and subject to change.