Publication, Part of Provisional Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England

Provisional Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England, August 2022, by provider

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:: 13 Oct 2022
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Hospital Trusts, NHS Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers
Date Range:: 01 Apr 2022 to 31 Aug 2022

Summary

Known Data Issue

The number of records included in the analysis for this publication is affected by the timing of data processing and data linkage following the bank holiday in September. There will be an update to the Emergency Care Dataset (ECDS) asset which means the provisional Month 5 figures reported in this publication may differ from future data releases.

Key Facts

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ECDS data contains 1.8 million A&E attendances for August 2022 at all types of A&E. However, ECDS data are incomplete; around 1.9 million A&E attendances were reported in the NHS England and NHS Improvement Situation Report data collection for the month, and 40 organisations that report data to Situation Reports did not report data to ECDS; these organisations are mostly lower acuity services such as minor injury units and walk-in centres

The median average time to initial assessment for attendances brought to A&E by ambulance was 9 minutes, with 95 per cent of patients being assessed within 1 hour 23 minutes. For all patients receiving treatment, the median average time to treatment was 1 hour 10 minutes with 95 per cent of patients receiving treatment within 5 hours 54 minutes.

The median average total time in A&E for all patients was 3 hours 5 minutes, with 95 per cent of patients departing A&E within 13 hours 19 minutes of arrival.

Nationally, 5 per cent of attendances at A&E departments were recorded as having left A&E before being seen for treatment, and 9 per cent of attendances in A&E in August 2022 were unplanned re-attendances within 7 days of a previous attendance.