The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
Accident and Emergency attendances; total time spent in A&E from arrival to admission, discharge or transfer; and waiting for emergency admission through A&E, quarter ending 30 September 2011.
The main findings for Q2 2011/12 were:
- Across all A&E types, 97.3% of patients spent 4 hours or less from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge. This compares to 97.0% in the previous quarter (Q1 2011/12) and 98.0% for the same quarter last year (Q2 2010/11).
- This quarter the percentage of patients who spent 4 hours or less from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge in major A&E departments only (type 1s) was 95.9% compared to 95.5% in the previous quarter and 97.0% in the same quarter last year.
- This quarter there were 5.4 million attendances at all types of A&E departments, a 0.3% increase from the same quarter last year, but a 1.9% decrease from the previous quarter.
- For major A&E (type 1s) there was a 0.6% decrease in attendances over the same quarter last year and a 2.8% decrease from the previous quarter.
- Of the 3.5 million patients who attended major A&E departments (type 1s), 24.7% or 0.86 million needed to be admitted to hospital. Of these, 97.5% were placed in a bed in a ward within four hours of a decision to admit. This compares to 97.1% in the previous quarter.
Full A&E statistics can be found on the Department of Health website.
Lead Statistician: Paul Steele
