Accident and Emergency Departments: Greater London
(asked on 12th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the average waiting times for treatment in the accident and emergency departments of (a) the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and (b) North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust for each of the last 12 months.
NHS Digital, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) measure accident and emergency (A&E) waiting times from arrival to assessment, treatment and departure. A table showing the mean and median waiting times for the last 12 months for the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and North Middlesex University Hospital is below. Data for 2015-16 and 2016-17 is provisional and may be subject to in-year changes.
Mean and median1 duration in minutes to assessment2, treatment3 and departure4 for unplanned A&E attendances4 at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and North Middlesex University Hospital for 2015-16 (provisional data)5
| Month | Duration to Assessment (minutes)2 | Duration to Treatment (minutes)3 | Duration to Departure (minutes)4 | |||
Mean | Median | Mean | Median | Mean | Median | ||
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust6 | August 2015 | 63 | 16 | 102 | 64 | 159 | 148 |
September 2015 | 70 | 18 | 171 | 80 | 163 | 151 | |
October 2015 | 71 | 19 | 158 | 80 | 165 | 155 | |
November 2015 | 168 | 30 | 146 | 85 | 182 | 165 | |
December 2015 | 205 | 33 | 146 | 80 | 178 | 162 | |
January 2016 | 298 | 101 | 165 | 91 | 204 | 177 | |
February 2016 | 237 | 50 | 153 | 99 | 199 | 179 | |
March 2016 | 252 | 55 | 166 | 108 | 201 | 183 | |
April 2016 | 245 | 46 | 145 | 86 | 185 | 168 | |
May 2016 | 263 | 59 | 143 | 91 | 180 | 172 | |
June 2016 | 292 | 80 | 163 | 93 | 193 | 177 | |
July 2016 | 267 | 53 | 149 | 87 | 180 | 164 | |
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust | August 2015 | 25 | 16 | 100 | 92 | 178 | 180 |
September 2015 | 30 | 18 | 107 | 94 | 190 | 185 | |
October 2015 | 29 | 19 | 118 | 107 | 195 | 191 | |
November 2015 | 35 | 24 | 132 | 119 | 219 | 204 | |
December 2015 | 33 | 23 | 136 | 122 | 229 | 207 | |
January 2016 | 35 | 23 | 142 | 118 | 250 | 207 | |
February 2016 | 35 | 22 | 141 | 120 | 241 | 206 | |
March 2016 | 32 | 21 | 132 | 110 | 228 | 197 | |
April 2016 | 26 | 17 | 113 | 91 | 215 | 182 | |
May 2016 | 25 | 18 | 115 | 92 | 212 | 181 | |
June 2016 | 25 | 18 | 104 | 86 | 197 | 175 | |
July 2016 | 21 | 15 | 78 | 65 | 161 | 153 | |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital
Notes:
Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
1 Mean and Median: The mean (average) and median (middle) in ranking when all values are sorted in order) duration in minutes to assessment, treatment or duration.
2 Duration to assessment: This is the total amount of time in minutes between the patients’ arrival and their initial assessment in the A&E department. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&E to the time when the patient is initially assessed.
3 Duration to treatment: This is the total amount of time in minutes between the patients’ arrival and the start of their treatment. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&E to the time when the patient began treatment
4 Duration to departure: This is total amount of time spent in minutes in an A&E department. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&E to the time when the patient is discharged from A&E care. This includes being admitted to hospital, dying in the department, discharged with no follow up or discharged and referred to another specialist department
5 2015-16 and 2016-17 is provisional data and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made.
6 Between November 2015 and July 2016, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust shows a mean time to assessment greater than the mean time to treatment. This appears to be a data quality.