Accident and Emergency Departments

(asked on 23rd October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted to hospital following a primary diagnosis of an ENT condition from accident and emergency departments in each month of each financial year since 2010-11.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 26th October 2017

A count of unplanned accident and emergencies (A&E) attendances1 resulting in an admission2 and a primary diagnosis of ear, nose and throat (ENT) conditions3, for the financial years between 2010-11 and 2016-174 is provided in the table below. This is a count of hospital attendances resulting in admissions, not individual patients as the same person may have been admitted into a National Health Service hospital on more than one occasion.

Month

Year

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

April

2,145

2,318

2,488

2,707

3,019

2,943

3,287

May

2,086

2,194

2,631

2,554

2,833

2,801

3,531

June

1,999

2,163

2,402

2,407

2,640

2,840

3,128

July

1,938

2,163

2,442

2,422

2,608

2,901

3,177

August

1,765

2,104

2,167

2,175

2,342

2,517

2,825

September

1,791

1,942

2,203

2,104

2,207

2,560

2,719

October

1,889

2,280

2,518

2,550

2,639

2,897

2,952

November

1,804

2,250

2,573

2,594

2,514

3,014

3,017

December

2,134

2,431

2,894

2,748

2,829

3,111

3,196

January

2,037

2,460

2,588

2,845

2,568

3,266

3,049

February

1,968

2,437

2,560

2,831

2,459

3,318

3,133

March

2,301

2,624

2,931

3,014

2,822

3,696

3,492

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

Notes:

1The following attendance category codes identify unplanned A&E attendances:

1 = First A&E attendance

3 = Follow-up A&E attendance - unplanned

9 = Not known

2 Attendance disposal 01 = Admitted to hospital bed / become a lodged patient of the same health care provider.

3The recording of the diagnosis field within the A&E data set is not mandatory. It is not known to what extent changes over time are as a result of improvements in recording practice.

34 = ENT conditions

4HES figures are available from 2007-08 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care. Note that HES include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity occurring between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.

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