Princess Royal Hospital Telford: Accident and Emergency Departments

(asked on 4th October 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people (a) presented at the Princess Royal Hospital A&E, Telford, and (b) were admitted to that hospital in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 11th October 2024

Information on accident and emergency attendances and admissions is not available in the format requested, as it is only available at a National Health Service trust-level. The following table shows the accident and emergency attendances and emergency admissions for the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, from 2019/20 to 2024/25:

Year

Accident and emergency attendances

Emergency admissions

Emergency admissions via accident and emergency

2019/20

143,008

59,793

31,804

2020/21

103,203

45,701

30,240

2021/22

149,323

54,807

34,574

2022/23

149,413

54,969

33,723

2023/24

154,766

59,307

33,118

2024/25

64,904

25,971

15,813

Source: the data is from NHS England, and is available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/
Note: the data for 2024/25 is only up until August 2024.

NHS England publishes monthly provisional quality indicators that include the median average and the 95th percentile times that patients spent in accident and emergency by NHS trust. The following table shows the monthly range, from lowest and highest, of the median average time in minutes that patients spent in accident and emergency, each year since 2019/20 to 2024/25, for the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust:

Year

Range of median average time patients spent in accident and emergency

Range of the 95th percentile time patients spent in accident and emergency

2019/20

169 to 211

577 to 921

2020/21

138 to 199

361 to 796

2021/22

158 to 218

471 to 1,089

2022/23

201 to 268

899 to 2,086

2023/24

212 to 240

1,698 to 2,339

2024/25

208 to 250

1,663 to 2,123

Source: the data is from NHS England, and is available at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/provisional-accident-and-emergency-quality-indicators-for-england
Notes:

  1. the data for 2024/25 is only up until July 2024.
  2. data is published at NHS provider-level not a site level, and is not disaggregated by age to provide separate information for adults and children.
  3. the 95th percentile is the time that is longer than the time 95% of patients spent in accident and emergency.
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