Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
(asked on 14th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine report entitled Tip of the Iceberg: 12-Hour Stays in the Emergency Department, published June 2022, what assessment he has made of the findings that on average 1047 patients spent longer than 12 hours in A&E departments every day in 2021.
This question was answered on 29th June 2022
No formal assessment has been made. However, NHS Digital estimates that in 2020/21, 302,784 patients spent 12 hours or more in accident and emergency.