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Publication, Part of

Provisional Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England, March 2023, by provider

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
18 May 2023
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Hospital Trusts, NHS Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers
Date Range:
01 Mar 2021 to 31 Mar 2023

Consultation: proposed improvements to the Hospital Accident and Emergency Activity publication

The data included within the publication will remain the same or have minor changes to the publication series, details about the changes can be found within the consultation.

Please complete our consultation about the changes and share your feedback by 18th August 2023
Consultation for Hospital Accident and Emergency Activity

18 August 2023 17:00 PM

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Summary

Provisional Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England uses data submitted to the Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) to compare England and providers in terms of the care quality indicators for Emergency Departments. The measures included in this publication report on data coverage in ECDS compared with the emergency monthly situation reports MSitAE published by NHS England and NHS Improvement. They also report statistics for total time in A&E, time to assessment, time to treatment, A&E attendances that left before treatment and unplanned reattendances within 7 days. Each report contains national figures and provider level figures.

From the January 2023 release, the format of the publication was updated to open data format following a review and consultation. We are continuing to improve publications, please let us know if you have any feedback using the survey link below.

Key Facts

2.0 million A&E attendances for March 2023 at all types of A&E

In ECDS however, ECDS data are incomplete; around 2.1 million A&E attendances were reported in the NHS England and NHS Improvement Situation Report data collection for the month

9 minutes was the median average time to initial assessment

for attendances brought to A&E by ambulance, with 95 per cent of patients being assessed within 1 hour 19 minutes.  For all patients receiving treatment, the median average time to treatment was 1 hour 9 minutes with 95 per cent of patients receiving treatment within 5 hours 24 minutes.

3 hours 2 minutes was the median average total time in A&E for all patients

with 95 per cent of patients departing A&E within 15 hours 10 minutes of arrival.

5 per cent left A&E before being seen for treatment

and 8 per cent of attendances in A&E were unplanned re-attendances within 7 days of a previous attendance.

Last edited: 7 July 2023 11:56 am