Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
(asked on 30th September 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients that waited longer than four hours in A&E in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2018-19.
This question was answered on 3rd October 2019
In 2009-10 there were 20,511,908 attendances of which 353,617 patients waited longer than four hours in accident and emergency.
In 2018-19 there were 24,826,981 attendances of which 2,976,112 people waited more than four hours but in the face of rising demand, 1,692,578 more patients were seen within four hours compared to 2009-10.