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Publication, Part of Accident and emergency - Patient journey
Accident and Emergency, Patient Journey - 2007-08, A and E HES data, Further analysis, Experimental statistics
Official statistics- Publication Date:
- 18 Nov 2009
- Geographic Coverage:
- England
- Geographical Granularity:
- Country, NHS Trusts, Primary Care Organisations
- Date Range:
- 01 Apr 2007 to 31 Mar 2008
Summary
This report is based on the 2007-08 HES dataset and examines the time spent in A&E in England by patients and their destination on leaving the department. During the period covered by the 2007-08 A&E publication not all NHS providers completed data submissions and data quality was considered to be poor in some cases. NHS organisations will be able to review their own data to ascertain the extent to which their local trend follows this national pattern. This can be done by using the accompanying interactive spreadsheet tool available above.
Highlights
- For approximately three-quarters (73 per cent) of patients (where records were available) their visit to A&E was completed within three hours, 96 per cent were completed within four hours.
- The number of patients leaving the A&E department per minute increased as time spent approached 4 hours, 6 per cent in the last 10 minutes
- 41 per cent of all A&E patients were discharged with no follow-up required whilst a further 21 per cent were admitted to hospital
- As time spent increased the percentage of patients discharged with no follow-up required fell whilst the percentage admitted increased
- Of those leaving the department, the percentage of patients admitted to hospital peaked between 3 hours 51 minutes and 4 hours
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