Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

(asked on 10th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of patients waiting 12 hours or more in Emergency Departments from time of arrival; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 16th March 2022

NHS England and NHS Improvement publish the number of patients spending over 12 hours in accident and emergency (A&E) from arrival on an annual basis. In 2020/21, 302,784 patients in England spent over 12 hours in A&E from time of arrival.

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