Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS performance figures for February 2022, what estimate his Department has made of the number of patients waiting 12 hours or more in emergency departments from decision to admit.
NHS England and NHS Improvement publish the number of patients waiting in emergency departments for admission for 12 hours or more from decision to admit on a monthly basis. In February 2022, 16,404 patients waited over 12 hours from decision to admit to admission.