Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

(asked on 1st July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time in A&E was in (a) Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (b) University Hospital Lewisham, (c) London and (d) England in each of the last four (i) quarters and (ii) years.


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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 9th July 2015

The National Health Service Health and Social Care Information Centre Hospital Episode Statistics measure accident and emergency waiting times from arrival to assessment, treatment and departure. A table showing the mean and median waiting times for 2010-11 to 2013-14 and quarters 1, 2, 3, and 4 of 2013-14 is attached. Data for individual hospital sites are not published. Final data for 2014-15 is not yet available.

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