Internal Reference Number: FOI_9578
Date Request Received: 27/07/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 14/08/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Emergency Department Waiting Times
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information relating to your Type 1 Emergency Department(s). Unless otherwise stated, please provide the information for each calendar year 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and from 1 January 2026 to 30 June 2026. Please provide this information for each reporting year. 1. Long A&E waits Please provide the total number of patients whose total time in the Emergency Department (measured from arrival/registration to admission, transfer or discharge) fell within each of the following categories: 4 to less than 8 hours 8 to less than 12 hours 12 hours or more Please provide this information broken down by calendar month. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to all questions in the attached Excel spreadsheet. Please note, Q3 is not answered as we do not have any commissioned Mental Health beds. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  13905 - FOI_9578 - Emergency Department Waiting Times.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: Mental health attendances Please provide the total number of attendances at your Type 1 Emergency Department(s) where the patient鈥檚 primary presenting complaint, diagnosis, or clinical reason for attendance was recorded as a mental health condition or mental health crisis, for each reporting period. If your Trust uses a specific coding definition or national dataset to identify these attendances, please use your standard reporting definition and briefly describe it. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see our response to all questions in the attached Excel spreadsheet. Please note, Q3 is not answered as we do not have any commissioned Mental Health beds. | |
| Question Number 3: Waiting time for a mental health bed following a decision to admit For the patients identified in Question 2 who required admission to a mental health inpatient bed, please provide the number of patients who waited the following lengths of time from the recorded decision to admit (or equivalent timestamp if a decision-to-admit field is not recorded) until departure from the Emergency Department: 4 to less than 8 hours 8 to less than 12 hours 12 hours or more | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see our response to all questions in the attached Excel spreadsheet. Please note, Q3 is not answered as we do not have any commissioned Mental Health beds. | |
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