Accident and Emergency Departments: West Midlands
(asked on 2nd March 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the trend in patients waiting over 4 hours for admission transfer and discharge in emergency departments in the NHS Birmingham And Solihull Integrated Care Board area.
No such assessment has been made.
NHS England publishes data on the number of patients admitted, transferred, or discharged within four hours in accident and emergency departments on a monthly basis. The information is available at the following link:
The following table shows the four-hour performance in each quarter since 2017 for the NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB):
Financial year | Percentage of total accident and emergency attendances admitted, transferred, or discharged within four hours | |
England | NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB | |
2025/26 | 74.8% | 72.2% |
2024/25 | 73.9% | 73.2% |
2023/24 | 72.1% | 69.9% |
2022/23 | 70.8% | 69.2% |
2021/22 | 76.7% | 71.5% |
2020/21 | 86.8% | 84.4% |
2019/20 | 84.2% | 80.1% |
2018/19 | 88.0% | 86.2% |
Note: the provisional data for the financial year 2025/26 is not yet fully available and doesn’t include February and March data.