NHS: Waiting Lists
(asked on 23rd January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting times for (a) A&E admissions, (b) routine operations and (c) cancer care in were London hospitals since 2010.
Data is not available in the format requested. NHS England collects and publishes annual national level accident and emergency, referral-to-treatment and cancer waiting times performance data. The national performance for each financial year from 2009-10, where available, is shown in the table below:
Financial year | Accident and Emergency (95% standard) | Referral-to-Treatment (92% standard) | Cancer - 2 week (93% standard) | Cancer - 31 day (96% standard) | Cancer - 62 day (85% standard) |
2009-10 | N/A | N/A | 95.6% (Data collected from October 2009) | 98.4% (Data collected from October 2009) | 86.6% (Data collected from October 2009) |
2010-11 | 97.4% | N/A | 95.5% | 98.3% | 87.0% |
2011-12 | 96.6% | 91.3% | 95.9% | 98.4% | 87.2% |
2012-13 | 95.9% | 94.4% | 95.5% | 98.4% | 87.2% |
2013-14 | 95.7% | 94.1% | 95.3% | 98.2% | 85.9% |
2014-15 | 93.6% | 93.3% | 94.2% | 97.7% | 83.4% |
2015-16 | 91.9% | 92.5% | 94.2% | 97.6% | 82.4% |
2016-17 | 89.1% | 90.7% | 94.4% | 97.5% | 81.9% |
2017-18 | 88.3% | 89.1% | 94.1% | 97.5% | 82.2% |
Data is not collected by individual hospital site. Data as is available can be accessed via the following links:
Accident and Emergency (Data available from 2010-11):
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/
Referral-to-treatment (Data available from 2011-12):
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/
Cancer (Data available from 2009-10):
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/
The Long Term Plan, launched by the National Health Service on 7 January 2018, will transform patient care and make sure every penny of taxpayers’ money is spent wisely. This is supported by the Government’s investment of £20.5 billion a year in real terms by 2023/24. The additional funding will allow the NHS to get back on the path to delivering core performance standards. More than that, it will also drive the reforms that deliver a better and more sustainable NHS with improved care for patients.
In addition, NHS England’s ‘Operational and Planning Guidance for 2019/20’ sets out deliverables against key performance areas and the Government expects the NHS to deliver these actions set– in full – as key steps towards fully recovering performance against core access standards.
The Government has also supported the NHS with an additional £1.6 billion for 2018/19 to improve emergency and elective performance. In addition, more than £420 million has been provided specifically for this winter.