Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 22 October 2019.
Jon Ashworth
Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients were seen within four hours in A&E in (a) 2018-19 and (b) each year since 2010-11.
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS Digital and NHS England publishes annual accident and emergency (A&E) activity in National Health Service hospitals at the following link:
The percentage of patient attendances spending four hours or less in A&E, 2009-10 to 2018-19 can be found in the following table.
- | % 4 Hours or Less |
2009-10 | 98.3% |
2010-11 | 97.4% |
2011-12 | 96.6% |
2012-13 | 95.9% |
2013-14 | 95.7% |
2014-15 | 93.6% |
2015-16 | 91.9% |
2016-17 | 89.1% |
2017-18 | 88.3% |
2018-19 | 88.0% |
Source: NHS England and NHS Digital
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