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Publication, Part of

Provisional Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England, March 2026, by provider

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
21 May 2026
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Hospital Trusts, NHS Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers
Date Range:
01 Mar 2024 to 31 Mar 2026
Page contents

Summary

Provisional Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England, March 2026, by provider

The measures included in this publication report on data coverage in ECDS compared with the emergency monthly situation reports MSitAE published separately by NHS England. 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.

PLEASE NOTE. Due to some issues relating to Month 12 processing in SQL RDS, a small number of batches which were submitted on Inclusion date were not picked up when the SQL processing took place. This means that the data presented here include approximately 52,600 records that were removed from the dataset in the Data Access Environment.

Please send queries or feedback via email to [email protected] Author: Secondary Care Open Data and Publications; Activity Capacity & Planning, NHS England Lead Analyst: Karl Eichler

Key Facts

2.33 million A&E attendances for March 2026 at all types of A&E

in ECDS. However, ECDS data are incomplete; around 2.43 million A&E attendances were reported in the NHS Situation Report data collection for the month

8 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 48 minutes. For all patients receiving treatment, the median average time to treatment was 1 hour and 1 minute with 95 per cent of patients receiving treatment within 5 hours 9 minutes.

2 hours and 39 minutes was the median average total time in A&E for all patients

with 95 per cent of patients departing A&E within 14 hours 2 minutes of arrival.

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

and 9.4 per cent of attendances in A&E were unplanned re-attendances within 7 days of a previous attendance.

Last edited: 22 May 2026 9:31 am