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, what the (a) longest, (b) shortest and (c) average waiting time for (i) children and (ii) adults was at Princess Royal Hospital A&E, Telford, in each of the last five years.
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:
- the data for 2024/25 is only up until July 2024.
- 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.
- the 95th percentile is the time that is longer than the time 95% of patients spent in accident and emergency.