Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

(asked on 14th November 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Matthew Pennycook Portrait
Matthew Pennycook
(Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many emergency admissions there were in the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.

Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 22nd November 2016

The information requested is in the table below.

NHS England publishes the number of emergency admissions each month. The total number of emergency admissions in 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust are shown in the table below.

Number of emergency admissions in Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust1, 2013-14 to 2015-16

Year

Total emergency admissions via accident and emergency (A&E)

Total emergency admissions (including those not via A&E)

2013-141

33,981

36,318

2014-15

47,190

50,400

2015-16

49,107

58,543

Source: A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, NHS England

Note:

1 In October 2013 South London Healthcare NHS Trust was dissolved and one of the hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, was merged with Lewisham Healthcare Trust to form Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. Therefore data is only directly comparable for 2014-15 and 2015-16.

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